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Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register’s weekly column that tries to balance your diet of industry news with your peers’ experiences of the messes they confront at the coalface of IT.…
Intel finds a friend in fight against $1.2B EU antitrust fine
An advisor to Europe’s General Court has torn into the legal logic behind the EU's €1.06 billion ($1.2 billion) antitrust fine levelled against chip giant Intel.…
IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security
A security researcher in Germany has been fined €3,000 ($3,300, £2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records.…
Foxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group
Taiwan’s contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn aka Hon Hai Technology Group , has teamed with India’s HCL Group to create a semiconductor assembly and testing facility in India.…
Google to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world
Google has decided to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world.…
Equinix bids for more of your multi-cloud network with homebrew hosted router
Equinix has unveiled a cloudy router it hopes will displace competitors in large, multi-cloud networks.…
US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world
Two US government agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), warned on Wednesday that drones made in China could be used to gather information on critical infrastructure.…
FDA approves AI-powered skin cancer-screening device that's just a teensy bit tricorder-ish
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a handheld AI-powered medical device that helps doctors diagnose skin cancer.…
Non-profit startup offers certifications for AI models that respect creators' rights
A former VP of audio at Stability AI who quit the biz over content scraping has launched a non-profit organization named “Fairly Trained” that certifies generative AI models whose developers obtained consent to train their models on copyrighted data.…
Did all that AI chatbot hype boost Bing's market share? Oh, wait, never mind
Microsoft's share of the global web search market has hardly changed since the arrival of Bing AI, aka Bing Chat aka Copilot, according to industry figures. We're told Bing's share has increased just 0.56 percentage points since it plugged OpenAI's GPT-4 into its web search nearly a year ago.…
IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office
IBM Consulting this week told its US-based executives and people managers that, effective immediately, they must work from a corporate office at least three days per week, or face the consequences.…
US Navy chooses now, of all times, to give Boeing $103M to update its sub recon jets
Boeing could use any win it can get lately, and it's found an admittedly small one in a $102.7 million deal to modernize some of the US Navy's submarine-hunting P-8A Poseidon aircraft.…
We all knew Nutanix would benefit from Broadcom nuking VMware's channel – but perhaps not this much
As the fallout from Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to rain down on the industry, rivals of the one-time virtualization giant have the opportunity to swoop on customers thanks to the massive changes happening to its channel.…
JPMorgan exec claims bank repels 45 billion cyberattack attempts per day
The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion – yes, with a B – cyberattack attempts per day, one of its leaders claimed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. …
Future of America's Cyber Safety Review Board hangs in balance amid calls for rethink
As the US mulls legislation that would see the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) become a permanent fixture in the government's cyber defense armory, experts are calling for substantial changes in the way it's organized.…
Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon's rocky runway
As the Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft prepares for its final descent into the Earth's atmosphere, another lunar mission, the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), is gearing up for a soft landing on the Moon's surface.…
Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing
Californians wondering why a shady shell company spent time buying up vast acreages of scrubland in Solano County can wonder no more – because a gaggle of tech billionaires are going on a charm offensive to get a city built from scratch.…
Ransomware attacks hospitalizing security pros, as one admits suicidal feelings
Ransomware attacks are being linked to a litany of psychological and physical illnesses reported by infosec professionals, and in some cases blamed for hospitalizations.…
Stripe commuters swap traffic jams for hydrofoil glam
San Francisco-based employees of financial services firm Stripe will soon have an alternative to their automotive commute thanks to Navier, a startup building electric hydrofoil boats.…
Microsoft 365's add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers
Microsoft's demands for extra cash from customers wishing to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 has highlighted a growing problem – the number of paid add-ons.…