Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)
Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash (www.theregister.com)
Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage'
A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....
E-waste is growing 5x faster than it's recycled, says UN (www.theregister.com)
HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? (www.theregister.com)
Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects (www.theregister.com)
We all knew it
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users (www.theregister.com)
The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture...
That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (www.theregister.com)
When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless
Why Microsoft is a national security threat (www.theregister.com)
PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history (www.theregister.com)
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all (www.theregister.com)
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all::'Literally bulletproof' but needs constant cleaning to stave off corrosion
Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft's Windows Recall feature is attracting controversy before even venturing out of preview....
Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users towards Edge in a new Research Report (www.theregister.com)
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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse (www.theregister.com)
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (www.theregister.com)
Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad (www.theregister.com)
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine's unstoppable force.
Telegram CEO calls out rival Signal, claiming it has ties to US government (www.theregister.com)
Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)
It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD (www.theregister.com)
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' (www.theregister.com)
