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British Library’s legacy IT blamed for lengthy rebuild • The Register
The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023. Rhysida broke into the British Library in October last year, making off with 600GB worth of data and, crucially, destroying many of its servers which are now in the process of being replaced. …
Chromium devs plan to put micropayments in the browser • The Register
The team behind Chromium – the open source engine of Google Chrome and other browsers – is working on a way to enable those surfing the web to pay for the stuff they read or watch without any interaction. Earlier this month, Alexander Surkov, a software engineer at open source consultancy Igalia, announced the Chromium …
Microsoft touts Visual Studio Code as a Java juggernaut • The Register
Microsoft reckons Visual Studio Code has a community of more than 2.5 million Java developers, and coming up next for them is full support for Java 21 and changes intended to improve reliability and stability. Java has dropped down the TIOBE index from number one in 2020 to number four in the latest iteration. It …
Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US government • The Register
Updated When it comes to US government employee satisfaction with IT services, one agency finds itself continually at the bottom of the heap: The rather crucial Department of Defense. Results from the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Mission-Support Customer Satisfaction Survey published on Wednesday found the DoD was trailing the other 23 US federal government agencies …
Telus to shed 6,000 workers as profits plunge 61 percent • The Register
Canadian telco Telus plans to ditch 6,000 workers across its business — about six percent of its global workforce — after its profits fell 61 percent year over year during the second quarter of 2023. Telus CEO Darren Entwistle announced the restructuring in the biz’s Q2 earnings release [PDF] on Friday. Some 4,000 positions will …
Intel to rebrand client chips once Meteor Lake splashes down • The Register
Poll When Intel debuts its forthcoming Meteor Lake client processors, it could be the end of the chip giant’s long-standing naming conventions for desktop and mobile processors. Chipzilla today told The Register “We are making brand changes as we’re at an inflection point in our client roadmap in preparation for the upcoming launch of our …
FTC urged to freeze OpenAI’s ‘biased, deceptive’ GPT-4 • The Register
The Center for AI and Digital Policy, a non-profit research organization, has urged America’s Federal Trade Commission to investigate OpenAI, claiming the upstart violated commerce laws by releasing GPT-4, a product the center believes deceives and puts folks at risk. In a complaint [PDF] to the consumer watchdog, filed on Thursday, the CAIDP called on …
Elon Musk’s Twitter open source foul-up • The Register
Opinion On February 21, Twitter god-king Elon Musk proclaimed “our algorithm is made open source next week.” He added it wouldn’t work well at first, “but it will improve rapidly!” That hasn’t happened. Twitter algorithm to be open sourced ‘next week,’ says Musk READ MORE Musk has been claiming he wanted to open source Twitter’s …
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.1 rc8 • The Register
Linus Torvalds has announced an eighth release candidate for version 6.1 of the Linux kernel. The emperor penguin last week worried that work on this cut of the kernel had not slowed down, so suggested it might need to stretch beyond his preferred seven release candidates. In his weekly state of the kernel post, Torvalds …
I’ll pay Twitter $8/month to put my money where my mouth is • The Register
Opinion I’ve decided to sign up for Twitter’s subscription-based service for a simple reason: to put my money where my mouth is. I’m a verified user, but care not for the blue tick as a status symbol. I applied for it as a sign of authenticity because plenty of websites cut and paste copy from …