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UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7%

Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills

Remote work – not AI – is killing job prospects for the youth

Young professionals may be perfectly productive while working from home, says the New York Fed, but the quality of their output isn't so great, so companies don't want to hire them

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes

Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking

Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K

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World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate

C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home

ServiceNow lays out possible co-CEO structure, but says no change imminent

The ITSM outfit would join Oracle, Comcast, and Netflix in installing bunk beds in the corner office

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure

Apple reportedly peels away some sales staff in small round of layoffs

Company has hitherto thought different about sackings

Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone

ESG kicked like a 'toxic political football' amid greenwashing

Two heads better than one? Oracle gives the co-CEO model another shot

Cloud and apps chiefs step up as Safra Catz moves upstairs. Larry remains Larry

Get paid like a prime minister to tame Home Office IT chaos

Department dangles £160K salary for CDIO to wrangle legacy systems, failed projects, and £1.8B budget

Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts

Satya Nadella lays out revised mission for Redmond. Spoiler: It involves AI

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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan speaks during the 2025 Foundry Direct Connect conference

Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time

Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees

European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups

Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up

Empire of office workers strikes back against RTO mandates

The rebellion grows and it seems resistance is not futile

Trendy graphic illustrating communications skills

To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator

It'll even help you develop technical skills

Colorful silhouettes of office workers in a corporate environment

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now

Break free from infrastructure limits: Nutanix and Dell for Agile, scalable IT

Join us here at 0900 PT, April 30, to find out more

Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators

Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it

Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze

Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank

Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager

Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights

Christoph Schell (left), executive vice president, chief commercial officer and general manager of Sales, Marketing and Communications at Intel, and Kevin O’Buckley, senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services at Intel, speak during Intel’s products update and go-to-market event at Intel Vision 2025 in Las Vegas

Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block

Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder

Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee dies of heart attack at 63

The man who helped make Sammy the biggest name in modern tellies

4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer

Microsoft and Dell keeping quiet on their work-life-balance trials

2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies

Return to office, hours and intensity of work cited as reasons to walk

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be

Global tech corps wrestle with policy disparity on either side of the Atlantic

Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees

Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists

Former Amazon exec appointed as boss of UK's competition watchdog

Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth'

Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom

The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner

IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year

Half the number of roles axed, and yes – you can keep blaming AI

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Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible

This'll be good for you, don't you worry, CFO tells venture fund while pulling back the sling

Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal

What could be the motivation for continuing to fight the case?

Curious actor or illusionist is looking behind red curtain

Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems

Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling

The workplace has become a surveillance state

Cracked Labs report explores the use of motion sensors and wireless networking kit to monitor offices

TSMC's US operations threatened with employee discrimination class action

Allegedly it's hard to get ahead at the chipmaker unless you speak Mandarin

Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week

Return-to-office mandate reaches inevitable conclusion

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Medical cannabis CTO says vendors would hang up when he called looking for a deal

Alternaleaf now has an outsized tech team, a build-not-buy mentality, and a love of FOSS

CEO Pat Gelsinger presents during Intel Innovation in San Jose

Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy

Foundry faces a reckoning

Cognizant alleges Infosys swiped its trade secrets

Sueball suggests outsourcer went out of bounds by developing competing product

Delta: CrowdStrike's offer to help in Falcon meltdown was too little, too late

Airline unimpressed with 'unhelpful and untimely' phone call from CEO, Falcon maker says claims untrue

Microsoft punches back at Delta Air Lines and its legal threats

SatNad himself offered CrowdStrike recovery help, Redmond says, before suggesting airline's IT is in a mess

Someone's face being taken over by AI, an abstract illustration

How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business

Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated

EU's renewable hydrogen plan needs a 'reality check'

Member nations aren't on the same page, investors are confused, and nobody understands the real costs

Someone wearing IBM VR goggles and not looking silly at all

IBM, Kyndryl again once sued for age discrimination – this time by its own VPs

More big blues at Big Blue ... And of course El Reg is cited in lawsuit

Wells Fargo fires employees accused of faking keyboard activity to pretend to work

Homer Simpson was ahead of his time

IT infrastructure scared away potential buyers of struggling e-commerce site

Whatever gear storied cycling site Wiggle used didn't propel it to a successful sale after the biz hit bumps

The hiring frenzy is over at India's services giants

Headcounts are down for the first time in ages, margins are up, and CEOs are happy

Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia

Game over for 900 staff as PlayStation London office and more shuttered

Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses' inability to tell them which offices are open

Bank boss has pay slashed after presiding over tech outages in 2023

Singapore's DBS wants accountability for digital dropouts

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GitOps pioneer Weaveworks unravels after funding fabric frays

Company burned through $61.6M in investment

When it comes to working from home, Register readers are bucking national trends

Our survey shows you like your away-from-office comforts

Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

Remote work option will still be offered – but at the cost of career advancement

Return-to-office mandates boost company profits? Nope

Biz boffins say bottom line and market cap didn't change post directive – but staff mood did

Enterprise wallets to sustain European IT growth as devices lag

Software and services set to save continent's tech growth into 2024, says Gartner

shadow IT - user sits at home in front of ageing unmanaged hardware

Digital democracy or IT anarchy? Gartner flags the low-code revolution

Without strong governance, incoming tools will wreak havoc for CIOs

Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation

But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone

Someone holding up money disappearing in their hand

US venture capitalist spending continues to slide, hits six year low in Q3

Looking for a bright spot? Well, it's easier to beg the Feds for cash now, say researchers

What to expect when the UK-US Data Bridge comes into force this week

Britain's privacy watchdog still not happy that agreement 'appropriately' protects sensitive data

Microsoft reportedly runs GitHub's AI Copilot at a loss

Redmond willing to do its accounts in red ink to get you hooked

BYOD should stand for bring your own disaster, according to Microsoft ransomware data

Rising number of RaaS baddies drive global attack numbers up 200%

BlackBerry to split into two companies, foraging for tastier fare for shareholders

Hopes to float IoT biz and keep infosec ops, then make a second pressing

Supreme Court doesn't want to hear union's beef about STEM grad work visas

End of the road for those hoping to cut 3-year permit back down to 12 months

A datacenter worker sitting down looking dejected

Datacenters face double dilemma of supply issues and a need for speed

Skills shortage is also holding industry back, survey finds

French monopoly cops raid Nvidia office in cloud probe

AI accelerator maker suspected of potential anti-competitive tricks

Oracle early leader in pointing vectors at business data, say analysts

Big Red’s 'big announcement' strives to bring LLM technique to the business data arena

Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster

Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid

Cloud slowdown hits Amazon as orgs look to rein in cost

Off-prem tech is 'SERIOUSLY expensive' Reg reader complains

SoftBank taps Arm CEO Rene Haas for its board of directors

Ahead of planned IPO, parent company moves executive pawn into place

Microsoft may stop bundling Teams with Office amid antitrust probe threat

First came Slack then others joined the scrum to tackle the Beast of Redmond