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No reason given for the 6% cull, but the CEO has previously talked up AI taking jobs

Recruit Holdings, the Japanese job site conglomerate that owns recruitment job site Indeed and employer reviewer Glassdoor, has eliminated about 1,300 positions.…

Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag

Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite.…

An announcement so weird it could only come from the Trump administration

video  Flanked by a pair of buzzing drones that threatened to drown out his voice, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reached up to grab a memorandum hung from a third drone hovering above his head. …

Data poisoning, meet data detox

ai-pocalypse  Computer scientists say they've devised a way to remove image-based protection mechanisms developed to protect artists from unwanted use of their work for AI training.…

As allegations fly regarding fraudulent powers of attorney, one member wants to wind up AFRINIC and start again

The receiver of the African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) has not explained why he chose to annul its recent election, prompting ICANN to again warn that it may need to step in, and longtime AFRINIC litigant Cloud Innovation to call for the body to be wound up.…

Intruders looked up how to use curl mid-attack - rookie errors kept damage minimal

Huntress security researchers observed exploitation of the CVSS 10.0 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Wing FTP Server on July 1, just one day after its public disclosure.…

Hush-hush settlement follows decision to wind down PeopleSoft support

Enterprise software support giant Rimini Street has entered into a confidential settlement agreement with Oracle, signaling the two companies may be nearing the end of their long-running legal dispute.…

A controversial and polarizing figure, but also widely hailed

obituary  Matt Trout will be missed by many, even though he was a divisive figure who featured several times on The Register.…

Rare earth metals are vital to electronics, and most of them are mined in China

There is only one active rare earth mine in the whole of the United States. As of Friday, the Department of Defense has become the largest shareholder in the company that owns and operates it. …

A warmer world will affect bit barn resilience, warn consultants

Many of the world's top 100 datacenter hubs are at risk from rising global temperatures, as growing cooling requirements push up costs and water consumption, while shutdowns to prevent overheating during heat waves may become more frequent.…

One in five users hit by service failures in the last year, research finds

A survey of PostgreSQL users has found that the levels of uptime experienced using cloud providers falls well short of their expectations in terms of reliability.…

WIndows 11 might have a bigger market share, but Windows 10 is still alive. Kind of

Even as its market share is finally eclipsed by Windows 11, Windows 10 is still alive and in need of fixes. Alongside the replacement of the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11, Microsoft has released a fix for the Extended Security Updates wizard to Windows 10 Insiders.…

Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year

Biz customers should expect further changes to SAP's licensing as the company introduces the reboot of its Business Suite construct into its product packages, the German-speaking user group has warned.…

'Our offer from Broadcom was five times higher than we expected'

The German arm of telecoms biz Telefónica has shifted support for its VMware installed base to Spinnaker after Broadcom quoted it a renewal figure five times the size of what it was previously paying.…

Last summer's riots show how some content can be harmful but not illegal

The Online Safety Act fails to tackle online misinformation, leaving the UK in need of further regulation to curb the viral spread of false content, a report from MPs has found.…

Crime-fighting agency cagey on details, probes into intrusions at M&S, Harrods, and Co-op continue

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested four individuals suspected of being involved in the big three cyberattacks on UK retail businesses in recent weeks.…

Agreement or otherwise expected from CISPE top brass before August

Exclusive  Microsoft has tabled a fresh set of commercial terms for an association of cloud providers in Europe that earlier filed a complaint with antitrust authorities in the trading bloc over allegations of anti-competitive licensing practices.…

First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of tech support terror and triumph.…

'He's useless with computers and can't even install an application' says lawyer

A Russian professional basketball player is cooling his heels in a French detention center after being arrested and accused of acting as a negotiator for a ransomware gang.…

Alleges Singaporean infosec outfit sent feeble legal demands to hosting company, which caved

Anti-censorship organization GreatFire.org has accused Singapore infosec outfit Group-IB of helping Chinese web giant Tencent to quell its activities.…