Tighter regulation of datacenter water, energy use expected • The Register
Assessing the sustainability credentials of your company's colocation provider is currently not so simple as they don't all report the...
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Twitter’s Rivals, Including Meta, Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos
Mr. Musk didn’t respond to requests for comment, and Meta declined to comment.After Mr. Musk bought Twitter, one alternative service...
Google’s Dart language soon won’t take null for an answer • The Register
When the third major release of the Dart programming language debuts in mid-2023, null values will no longer be allowed...
Microsoft to Offer Call of Duty on Nintendo Devices if Activision Deal Closes
Nintendo did not immediately respond to a request for comment.A long-running franchise in which players fight in historical, present-day and...
North Korean tech freelancers’ earnings fund nukes, missiles • The Register
North Korean IT pros are using freelancing platforms to earn money that the nation's authoritarian government uses to fund the...
Why Losing to Meta in Court Could Still Be a Win for Antitrust Regulators
President Biden’s antitrust regulators have adopted a mantra: In order to win, they need to be willing to lose.Since Mr....
Indiana Sues TikTok for Security and Child Safety Violations
Indiana’s attorney general on Wednesday sued the Chinese-owned app TikTok for deceiving users about China’s access to their data and...
First-ever orbital satellite launch from UK delayed • The Register
Virgin Orbit's plan to launch a rocket into space from the UK has been delayed. All eyes were on the...
Apple Plans to Beef Up iCloud Data Encryption
Apple has long promised that what is on your iPhone stays on your iPhone. But that pledge came with the...
Trader loses 70 ETH over bug in NFT marketplace Blur
A bug in the new bidding system of non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Blur caused a user to lose 70 ETH...
Boss installed a virus, left techies to mop up • The Register
On Call Welcome once again, comrades, to On-Call, The Register's celebration of the tech proletariat's struggles with oppression by bourgeois...
Sunny Balwani, No. 2 Theranos Executive, Is Sentenced for Fraud
Ramesh Balwani, the former chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly...
Hong Kong’s virtual asset licensing regime to take effect next June
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council passed the amendment to the bill that includes a licensing regime for virtual asset service providers...
Look like Bane, spend like Batman with $949 headphones • The Register
If you've ever thought "I wish my incredibly expensive Bluetooth headphones were double the price and included a detachable mask...
Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi Set Off Debate Over Release of Twitter Files
It was, on the surface, a typical example of reporting the news: a journalist obtains internal documents from a major...
Sam Bankman-Fried probed over Terra-LUNA crash: report
Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.com, for possible market manipulation that led...
NHS loses 13.5 million working hours a year to deficient IT • The Register
As the UK's National Health Service strains under the burden of the winter crisis, a new study has revealed that...
FTC Sues to Block Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision
The deal between Microsoft and Activision has been under review by 16 regulators around the world, but the F.T.C. is...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches Record Altitude on 35th Flight
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA designed the Ingenuity helicopter...
Bitcoin, Ether prices rise as U.S. equities help crypto bounce back
Bitcoin rose back above the US$17,000 mark in Friday morning trading in Asia, helped by gains in U.S. equities overnight....
Rusty release could be a game-changer • The Register
Opinion Linus Torvalds is happy to tell you that Linux release numbers aren't a big deal. As the Linux supremo...
Tell Us How Your Family Uses Alexa
Amazon has not figured out how to get customers to buy stuff with Alexa, its digital assistant, which is largely...
Pixel 7 Gets a Big Update With Free VPN and AI-Enhanced Call Audio
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Google launched the Pixel 7...
U.S. considering bill to require crypto miners to report carbon emissions
U.S. cryptocurrency miners would be required to report greenhouse gas emissions under a new bill submitted to the Senate, reflecting...
Guess which Fortune 500 brands share data with Twitter? • The Register
More than 70,000 websites belonging to Fortune 500 brands, government agencies, and universities share consumers' data with Twitter using data...
Inside the Face-Off Between Russia and a Small Internet Access Firm
The Kremlin spent years building the legal foundation and technological abilities to control the internet more closely. Yet even as...
Tesla May Bring Back Radar Autopilot Hardware, Abandon Vision-Only Approach
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Many of the cars on...