Новости за 17.01.2024

Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses

Exclusive  IBM has rejigged a program that rewarded inventors at Big Blue for patents or publications, leaving some angry that they are missing out on potential bonuses.…

'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study

Middle Kingdom can make market moves too... as potential global price battles loom

Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project

A year after the launch of the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is revealing the highs and lows of the mission.…

Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way

Update on Linux distro's next major version heralds big changes ahead

Updated  The future of openSUSE is firming up, but possibly not in the direction that existing users of the distro will enjoy.…

Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table

Imagined impact of GenAI on GDP is over-optimistic, analyst firm says

Gartner thinks the ever-expanding GenAI ecosystem is being hyped with real customer deployments not emerging in earnest until next year.…

How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more

Hear Dell Technologies share its early experiences of finding a way

Webinar  No organization can ignore the imperative to at least assess the potential of generative AI, but the technology presents us all with many challenges.…

CEO stays tight-lipped in front of MPs while Fujitsu admits moral responsibility for compensation

Millions have perfectly serviceable PCs running Windows 10 at home

Microsoft's desperation to persuade customers that migrating to Windows 11 is a painless process has taken a new turn, thanks to a relentlessly perky video: "Make Your Move to Windows 11 Easier."…

Uninstall the update or edit the Windows registry to restore order

The latest Windows Server 2022 patch has broken the Chrome browser, and short of uninstalling the update, a registry hack is the only way to restore service for affected users.…

...though bonkers conspiracies on solving date-field problem never died down

None of this inflation-linked percentage nonsense, says Ofcom

Updated  BT is ditching mid-contract price hikes linked to inflation before Britain's comms regulator issues a blanket ban in pursuit of greater transparency for customers.…

ICO slaps penalties on two businesses that collectively made more than 3 million cold calls

Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters

Stand by to be amazed: Lotus Notes is still being developed

Kettle  It's Retro Tech Week here at The Register, and we've got four of our vultures together to talk about old computers and software that, in one form or another, thankfully refuses to die.…

.SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife

After settling privacy lawsuit now admits you're observable even when trying for anonymity

It pays not to be Huawei, and the US military can be lucrative, too

Comment  A vendor establishing a business unit dedicated to government sales is not new or unusual. But Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia’s decision to do so in the USA this week tells a bigger story about Washington’s paranoia regarding the security of critical communications infrastructure security.…

Infecting networks via years-old CVEs that should have been patched by now

Video game record keepers Twin Galaxies finish messy four-year fight with Billy Mitchell

Just days after ban on 'military and warfare' applications goes away, Davos hears the details

Today's safety guardrails won't catch these backdoors, study warns

Analysis  AI biz Anthropic has published research showing that large language models (LLMs) can be subverted in a way that safety training doesn't currently address.…