January 2025

Tesla shares sink as car deliveries post surprise drop for first year ever 2025-01-02 at 18:47 By Reuters Reduced European subsidies, a shift in the US toward lower-priced hybrid vehicles and tougher competition especially from China’s BYD have pressured Elon Musk’s Tesla. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | […]

Apple to settle Siri privacy lawsuit for $95M after complaints of unwanted ads related to private conversations 2025-01-02 at 18:47 By Reuters Mobile device owners complained that Apple routinely recorded their private conversations after they activated Siri unintentionally, and disclosed these conversations to third parties such as advertisers. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

With 10 months of support remaining, Windows 10 still dominates 2025-01-02 at 18:19 By Richard Speed Statcounter figures show Windows 11 losing user love Microsoft’s 2025 is off to a bad start amid statistics that show users are still giving Windows 11 a wide berth as Windows 10 continues to dominate the desktop operating system

Screwed by the cloud: Hardware vendors looking for that raison d’refresh 2025-01-02 at 17:33 By Paul Kunert 40% of world’s servers are 6 years +, drink 66% of DC energy, provide 7% of compute. Please refresh, says HPE Four in ten of the servers currently residing in datacenters across the globe are at least six

Your complicated passwords may not be as effective as you think 2025-01-02 at 17:01 By Brooke Kato Have we finally cracked the code on password security? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft 2025-01-02 at 17:00 By Richard Speed That strange time between Christmas and New Year – perfect for changing production projects Microsoft left an unwelcome gift under the tree for .NET developers – an “unexpected” change to the distribution of installers and archives, which could hit production systems.…

Trump’s tariff threats could bump PC prices by almost half 2025-01-02 at 16:20 By Dan Robinson Warning of planned hikes limit forecasts to just 2% shipment growth for US market in 2025 Import tariffs proposed by the incoming Trump administration could cause PC prices in the US to jump 46 percent, stifling market growth in

Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes 2025-01-02 at 16:20 By Lindsay Clark Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg Interview  Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach insists more than 90 percent of the SaaS HR and finance application vendor’s rollouts are a success, putting aside

Severe Security Flaws Patched in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API 2025-01-02 at 16:16 By Details have emerged about three now-patched security vulnerabilities in Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API that could result in data exposure. The flaws, discovered by Melbourne-based cybersecurity company Stratus Security, have been addressed as of May 2024.

AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform 2025-01-02 at 15:35 By Lindsay Clark But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines Analysis  Last week, AWS jumped into Iceberg with both feet. S3 Buckets, the near-ubiquitous storage containers for developers, got another layer. The dominant cloud platform provider introduced

RISC-V is making moves, but it has work to do if it wants to hit the mainstream 2025-01-02 at 14:01 By Gavin Bonshor Can it topple x86 and Arm, or is the gap too wide to close? Feature  RISC-V has been talked up as a challenger to Arm and x86, offering an open royalty-free architecture

Cross-Domain Attacks: A Growing Threat to Modern Security and How to Combat Them 2025-01-02 at 13:22 By In the past year, cross-domain attacks have gained prominence as an emerging tactic among adversaries. These operations exploit weak points across multiple domains – including endpoints, identity systems and cloud environments – so the adversary can infiltrate organizations,

Honored guest Bork visits Warsaw, Poland 2025-01-02 at 13:05 By Richard Speed Microsoft will stop at nothing to advertise its services BORK!BORK!BORK!  A reminder today that bork – the nickname The Register gives to IoT displays gone awry – is truly international.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source