Lindsay Clark

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

Databricks, the machine learning and data lake biz valued at around $62 billion, is contributing to the open source Iceberg table format preferred by rivals in the market.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

Profiteering resellers stateside filled up on smartphone inventory in calendar Q1 before the scheduled imposition of US tariffs, which have rocked global stock prices and US Treasury bonds since April 2. Preliminary data released by IDC today shows the volume of phones sold into the channel globally between the start of January and the end of March grew 1.5 percent year-on-year to 304.9 million units. The US smartphone sector itself bounced by 5 percent, the data indicates.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

Two of the top team behind Asda's £1 billion ($1.31 billion) tech divorce from US retail giant Walmart — which has seen a number of setbacks — are departing the company. Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth yearREAD MORECarl Dawson, Asda's CIO, and Rob Barnes, VP of digital and technology, are set to leave the UK's third largest supermarket, according to internal communications seen by The Register.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

An activist investor has called on IBM to report on its lobbying practices, which he alleges include spending “dark money” with organizations that campaign against climate change reporting and legislation.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

The return of Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo has borne fruit in the form of a new data type - vector sets - for the widely used cache-turned-multi-model database. Inspired by sorted sets, one of Redis' core data types known for handling ordered collections, vector sets offer a native way to store and query high-dimensional embeddings, with a focus on vector similarity search for AI workloads. Redis started life in 2009 as an attempt to build a performant key-value database.