Sometimes the best form of revenge is doing nothing – very politely

On Call  Taylor Swift is playing in On Call's town tonight, creating a city-wide Friday frenzy. Here at The Register we prefer to end the working week in a gentler fashion by offering a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we share stories of haters who hated IT, fakers who faked technical nous, and techies who shook it off and got the job done.…

Appears to be struggling to find them, even in India, as it's re-posted job ads

Meta wants to build accelerators and SoCs to run in its datacenters – for jobs including machine learning – but appears to be struggling to find folks to design them.…

No, this was not the cause of cellular network outages that hit the USA on Thursday

NASA has warned of strong solar flares that have the potential to interrupt communications in space and down here on Earth.…

Nonprofit SFLC links orders to farming protests

The global government affairs team at X (née Twitter) has suspended some accounts and posts in India after receiving executive orders to do so from the country's government, backed by threat of penalties including significant fines and imprisonment.…

Government takes TEPCO to task for caesium absorption tower incident

Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry minister has called on the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to improve its management of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after a leak was discovered earlier this month.…

Material information withheld from shareholders, it's claimed

Juniper Networks, currently in the process of being acquired by HPE, has been accused of violating US securities laws in a shareholder lawsuit.…

A name that's commonly shouted by pirates might be a clue, me hearties!

Avast has agreed to cough up $16.5 million after the FTC accused the antivirus vendor of selling customer information to third parties.…

Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly

Comment  Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.…

IPO docs drop showing just who has a stake in the forum

Reddit will provide content posted on its forums to Google, which will use it to train and update AI chatbots in a deal reportedly worth $60 million a year that could – oddly enough – deliver big bucks to OpenAI boss Sam Altman.…

Food delivery giant promises to drop off $375,000, no tip

DoorDash will cough up $375,000 to settle claims it trampled California's privacy laws by giving away customers' info without their consent nor giving them the opportunity to opt out.…

Prescription orders hit after IT supplier Change Healthcare pulls plug on systems

Updated  IT provider Change Healthcare has confirmed it shut down some of its systems following a cyberattack, disrupting prescription orders and other services at pharmacies across the US.…

With only enough cash on hand to keep the lights on until 2025, loss-making automaker may soon be next casualty of the EV revolution

Amid continuing losses, Rivian is laying off 10 percent of its salaried employees and a limited number of hourly folks in an attempt to reduce its expenses. …

New features aimed to stamp out problems of the past

Law enforcement's disruption of the LockBit ransomware crew comes as the criminal group was working on bringing a brand-new variant to market, research reveals.…

It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part

Updated  Intuitive Machines has tweaked today's Moon landing time to 2230 UTC following the successful insertion of its Odysseus lander into lunar orbit.…

Lower operator energy costs or sell power back to grid for $$$

Nokia is tempting mobile network operators with a tool that it thinks will help them monetize the backup battery storage at their cell base station sites.…

Researcher makes case for default limits after arriving via Python library

A user left with a surprise bill for thousands of dollars after running queries on Google's BigQuery data warehouse has sparked a debate about how vendors should place limits on the use of their tools.…

No, this isn't a pitch for a Godzilla sequel

A Japanese Yakuza leader is being charged with trafficking nuclear materials by US prosecutors.…

Unfettered access to non-public info would have violated FTC order

Longtime Twitter staffers saved Elon Musk from himself, according to a letter from the US Federal Trade Commission chair.…

If they did it, it gives new meaning to quality family time. Meanwhile, key LockBit leaders remain at large

Today's edition of the week-long LockBit leaks reveals a father-son duo was apprehended in Ukraine as part of the series of takedown-related arrests this week.…

Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe

Amazon, currently locked in a legal battle with the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over the mega-souk's treatment of workers, is arguing the watchdog is unconstitutional. And it's not the only corporation testing that line of reasoning.…