7 hours ago · Workday is erasing 8.5 percent of its personnel under a restructuring scheme because… AI. In a classic piece of corporate speak, the company said in an SEC filing that the job cuts are “intended to prioritize its investments and continue advancing Workday’s ongoing focus on durable growth.”. This will “result in the elimination of approximately 1,750 positions, or 8.5 percent of ...

17 hours ago · Google’s parent Alphabet has achieved $100 billion in annual net income for the first time. News of all those zeroes came in the mega-corp's fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 financial results, which recorded $96.5 billion in Q4 2024 revenue and $350 billion for the full year, representing year-on-year gains of 12 percent and 14 percent respectively.

1 day ago · Eight out of the top ten semiconductor vendors recorded healthy revenue growth last year, fueled by burgeoning GPU and AI processor sales to datacenter customers. Intel and Infineon were the notable exceptions. This is according to Gartner's estimations for the worldwide semiconductor market, which ...

3 days ago · To be fair, the word "reboot" goes back more than four decades, but it has only recently become associated with everyday appliances. This writer has an oven that demanded a reboot after its clock got terribly confused about daylight saving time, and a car that refused to go into gear without a software update and a restart.

6 days ago · More than two million US federal civilian employees have been invited to resign as of September 30, 2025, with incentives promised for those who agree to quit by February 6, 2025. The sweeping offer comes from the White House’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as part of the Trump ...

5 days ago · This is the fourth consecutive quarter that the build rate has surpassed a million plus properties, and BT said it is on track to reach more than 4.2 million premises during the full FY25, on the way to its target of 25 million by the end of December 2026.. BT's trading update noted: "Record customer demand for Openreach FTTP with net adds of 472k in the quarter; total premises connected 6m ...

5 days ago · The European Space Agency (ESA) has inked a deal worth €862 million with Thales Alenia Space to develop a lunar lander. The lander, called Argonaut, is designed to carry cargo to the lunar surface and will consist of three parts: the Lunar Descent Element (LDE), which will be responsible for the journey to the Moon and landing on the lunar surface, a cargo platform which will provide an ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Shares in producers of AI hardware, including Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom, are all up at the time of writing. Green New Deal DOA. With the canning of EO 14037, Trump not only scrapped the US's goal of transitioning half of passenger vehicles on American roads into zero-emissions vehicles (including battery electric, plug-in hybrids, and fuel cell vehicles) by 2030, but eliminated a number of ...

Jan 27, 2025 · The State Department did not immediately respond to The Register's inquiries, including which cyber-related programs and funding have been halted, and how this move supports homeland security, which increasingly involves strong digital defenses around the globe.. Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch

Jan 2, 2025 · Analysis This year saw the launch of the first satellite constellations designed to provide commercial services to unmodified smartphones, which looks set to become the biggest satellite use case, with the US leading the way on adoption.. Satellite services integrated with terrestrial cellular networks are still in their infancy, but the revenue from these is expected to grow rapidly to reach ...