IBM’s plan to replace thousands of roles with AI presently looks more like outsourcing jobs to India, at the expense of organizational competency. That view of Big Blue was offered to The Register after our report on the IT giant’s latest layoffs, which resonated so strongly with several IBM employees Read more…
Some McDonald’s franchisees — which own and operate 95% of McDonald’s in the United States — are now rolling out kiosks that can take cash and accept change. But even in these locations, McDonald’s is reassigning cashiers to other roles, including new “guest experience lead” jobs that help customers use Read more…
Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery — a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn advertising revenue. With that, the app was infected with code that caused 100 million infected devices to connect to Read more…
With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s designed to bridge the open and proprietary worlds, replete with new definition, terminology, and governance model. Developer software Read more…
SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years. Earlier this month, Musk had said that the first Starships to Mars would launch in two years “when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. The CEO on Sunday said that the first crewed mission timeline will Read more…
On Thursday, Amazon Ads announced Video Generator and Live Image, “our first generative AI-powered technology designed to remove creative barriers and enable brands to produce lifestyle imagery that enhances ad performance.” Amazon’s blog post calls it “a new feature that uses generative AI technology to make it easier for advertisers Read more…
The once-booming tech job market has contracted sharply, with software development postings down over 30% since February 2020, according to Indeed.com. Tech companies have shed around 137,000 jobs since January. This downturn, following years of aggressive hiring, marks a significant shift in the industry’s labor dynamics. Companies are pivoting from Read more…