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Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO
interview Things haven't gone well for Broadcom since it acquired VMware, and much of what has happened has confirmed fears that Virtzilla customers expressed well before the deal closed. …
Musk burns bridges in Brazil after calling for senior judge to be impeached
In this weekend's episode of "Billionaires Behaving Boldly," X supremo Elon Musk locked horns with Brazil's legal luminaries over what constitutes free speech and what's far-right pablum.…
Shadow of Trump hangs over future EU-US tech collaboration
AI, 6G, semiconductor supply chains and critical minerals were all discussed at the latest EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), amid concerns that a victory for Republican candidate Donald Trump in this year's election would put an end to such cooperation.…
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall says HPC leader
Interview You may have heard that Google is considering putting its latest AI search innovations behind a paywall, something that doesn't sit well with Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, COO at German HPC firm Northern Data Group. …
Puppies, kittens, data at risk after 'cyber incident' at veterinary giant
First, they came for hospitals, then it was charities and cancer centers. Now, cyber scumbags are coming for the puppies and kittens.…
Butler Investments joins Atos rescue party
Shares in crisis-ridden French IT integrator Atos bounced by over 25 percent this morning as top shareholder Onepoint said it has a rescue plan involving investment firm Butler Industries.…
Alibaba Cloud slashes prices outside China
Alibaba Cloud is cutting prices for international users of its core compute, storage, and database services, using offers similar to those it dangled before Chinese customers earlier this year.…
Change Healthcare faces second ransomware dilemma weeks after ALPHV attack
Change Healthcare is allegedly being extorted by a second ransomware gang, mere weeks after recovering from an ALPHV attack.…
Engine cover flies from Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 during takeoff
The engine cover on a Boeing 737-800 used by Southwest Airlines detached during takeoff from Denver on Sunday, prompting an investigation by aviation regulators.…
A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS
More than 30 years before the xz backdoor became the near disaster of the week, an intern tried to sneak some unexpected code into MS-DOS. Not a backdoor, but potentially a bit silly.…
What happened to agility and new business models? Cloud benefits have all gone to IT
The migration of IT workloads to the cloud is benefiting tech departments rather than the wider business, according to a McKinsey survey.…
Tele2 secure collaboration hub for public sector keeps Swedish data in Sweden
A Swedish telco has rolled a collaboration platform for public sector organizations worried about sensitive data leaving Sweden.…
Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there's a get out of jail card
Opinion The Sleepwalking Into Disaster klaxon is echoing through the corridors of power. Again. This time, the corridors are British and the klaxonner is the Cabinet Office's Central Digital & Data Office.…
Windows 95 support chap skipped a step and sent user into Micro-hell
Who, Me? Greetings, gentle reader, and welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Reg readers like yourself try to make each Monday a little less manic by sharing tales of foible and fallibility.…
Head of Israeli cyber spy unit exposed ... by his own privacy mistake
In Brief Protecting your privacy online is hard. So hard, in fact, that even a top Israeli spy who managed to stay incognito for 20 years has found himself exposed after one basic error.…
Use of India's CBDC declines, but central bank presses ahead
India's Reserve Bank deputy governor has revealed that transaction volumes using the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) have trended downwards since December 2023 – and may even have been inflated by one-off uses of the currency.…
Cloud Software Group and Microsoft pledge another eight years of co-opetition
Cloud Software Group (CSG) and Microsoft have renewed their alliance for another eight years, this time with a $1.65 billion commitment for the Group to use Redmond's cloud, productivity tools, and AI.…
Naver debuts multilingual HyperCLOVA X LLM it will use to build sovereign AI for Asia
Korean web giant Naver last week debuted a family of large language models named HyperCLOVA X, which it claimed perform better at cross-lingual reasoning in Asian languages than other models – and may therefore help the region to develop sovereign large language models.…
Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over
ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: YouTube admits Indian tech services giant Wipro on Friday named a new CEO: Srini Pallia is the company’s new leader, effective immediately, after previous boss Thierry Delaporte stepped down “to pursue passions outside the workplace.”…
Industrial robots make people feel worse about jobs and themselves
Robots may make companies more productive, as some studies have suggested, but they make people feel that their jobs have less meaning.…