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Not long after it emerged that X, formerly Twitter, cut 1 in 3 Trust and Safety employees after Elon Musk's takeover in October 2022, the social media platform now claims it's ready to hire 100 full-time content moderators at a new office in Austin, Texas.…

Japan's Moon lander has woken up on the lunar surface and begun transmitting data back to controllers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.)…

Amazon's $1.7 billion bid to buy iRobot is off, and while Jeff Bezos's business faces a termination fee, almost a third of vacuum maker's staff face termination of an altogether different nature.…

A dark web drug kingpin has handed more than $150 million in cryptocurrency to US authorities and pleaded guilty to selling hundreds of kilograms of drugs over the internet.…

Microsoft is unleashing build 26040 of Windows Server and has revealed the official branding for the product: Windows Server 2025.…

Europe's aviation safety body is working with the airline industry to counter a danger posed by interference with GPS signals - now seen as a growing threat to the safety of air travel.…

Apple launched the original 128 kB Macintosh around 40 years ago, and in so doing changed the computer industry, in ways that a lot of people still don't fully understand.…

AI in brief The US Department of Justice and Securities Exchange Commission are both launching investigations into the Cruise accident that hit a woman and dragged her for six meters (20 feet) under the wheels of its driverless car.…

It was a while coming, but Google has finally made a Windows on ARM-native version of Chrome.…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed off on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves from space.…

Opinion Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising predictions, such as Irish datacenter electricity usage making up a third of that country's total juice budget by 2026.…

Who, Me? Why hello, dear reader – fancy seeing you here again on a Monday – the slot we The Register reserves for a fresh instalment of Who, Me? in which Register readers share their tales of tech tribulations.…

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proposed creating a new top-level domain (TLD) and never allowing it to be delegated in the global domain name system (DNS) root.…

US-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) operators could soon be required to strengthen know-your-customer (KYC) procedures in order to prevent foreign actors renting the infrastructure needed to train AI models.…

Chinese tech giant Tencent has predicted that high-performance computing (HPC), quantum computing, cloud computing and edge computing will soon merge.…

Linus Torvalds has dished up one of his most strongly worded Linux kernel mailing list posts in years, lashing a contributor from Google for his suggestions regarding filesystems.…

Infosec in brief Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held its first-ever automotive-focused Pwn2Own event in Tokyo last week, and awarded over $1.3 million to the discoverers of 49 vehicle-related zero day vulnerabilities.…

Asia In Brief Indian infosec firm CloudSEK last week claimed it found records describing 750 million Indian mobile network subscribers on the dark web, with two crime gangs offering the trove of data for just $3,000.…

Comment HPE’s decision to acquire Juniper is bad news for enterprise IT, as yet another example of consolidation in a field that already offers fewer, and less palatable, competitive choices in a shrinking market.…

SparkyLinux is a lightweight distro based on Debian, but it offers some choices that few if any others do.…