IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims - The Register
Sep 18, 2024 · Asked to confirm the layoffs, an IBM spokesperson told The Register, "Early this year, IBM disclosed a workforce rebalancing charge that would represent a very low single digit percentage of IBM’s global workforce, and we still expect to exit 2024 at roughly the same level of employment as we entered with.". IBM's first-quarter 2024 earnings report said that the mainframe goliath took a $400 ...
Microsoft partners beware: 2025 is the end of Action Pack
Aug 28, 2024 · A Register reader affected by the change told us: "The first impact for us will be cost. We'll need to go from Action Pack (£390 + VAT) to Partner Success Core (£735 + VAT). Secondly, the benefits appear to have moved all online.
Twitter leak: 200m+ account database now free to download
Jan 5, 2023 · No word on whether the Christmas day hack of British education secretary Gillian Keegan's Twitter account is related. In that case miscreants took over Keegan's account, changed her profile picture to Elon Musk, and posted a series of tweets promoting cryptocurrencies. Twitter did not respond to The Register's inquiries.. Stolen …
Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues
Jun 28, 2024 · Google pointed to a series of incident reports over the past few years concerning Entrust, saying they "highlighted a pattern of concerning behaviors" that have ultimately seen the security company fall down in Google's estimations.
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JetBrains releases IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3 and other IDEs, still struggles to convince devs of benefits of new UI .NET 9 released with updated frameworks and tooling, but Microsoft factor both helps and hurts the platform
ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network
Aug 8, 2024 · The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has agreed to reserve the .internal top-level domain so it can become the equivalent to using the 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16 IPv4 address blocks for internal networks.
Ditching VMware over the Broadcom buy? Here are your options
Jun 28, 2022 · Opinion Broadcom has yet to close the deal on taking over VMware, but the industry is already awash with speculation and analysis as to how the event could impact the cloud giant's product availability and pricing.. If Broadcom's track record and stated strategy tell us anything, we could soon see VMware refocus its efforts on its top 600 customers and raise prices, and leave thousands more ...
More layoffs at Microsoft: What's really going on here?
Jun 4, 2024 · Analysis Microsoft plans to lay off about 1,000 people across the tech giant, despite what CEO Satya Nadella described during the corporation's April earnings call as "a record third quarter.". While reports have suggested Microsoft would cut as many 1,500 people just from its Azure for Operators group, The Register has been told that number is not accurate and is inflated.
'Cybersecurity issue' blamed for MoneyGram's ongoing outage
Sep 23, 2024 · A "cybersecurity issue" has shut down MoneyGram's systems and payment services since Friday, and the fintech leader has yet to update customers as to when it expects to have its global money transfer services back up and running.
Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in Rust
Apr 27, 2023 · Amid growing industry support for memory safe programming, Microsoft's exploration of Rust has become more enthusiastic.And last September, it became an informal mandate: Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich declared that new software projects should use Rust rather than C/C++.. The Rust renovation of Windows began in 2020 with DWriteCore, the Windows App SDK implementation of Windows' DWrite ...