Richard Speed

1 day ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

Interview European cloud providers and software vendors used this week's Nextcloud summit to insist that not only can workloads be moved from the US hyperscalers, not considering it is "negligent" on behalf of IT bosses. European organizations are taking a careful look at their workloads and pondering if running workloads on a US hyperscaler is worth the risk, considering the unpredictability of the US administration and concerns around data privacy and sovereignty.

1 day ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

Jared Isaacman, former NASA Administrator nominee, has shared how the US space agency might have looked under his leadership and blamed his connections with Elon Musk for the abrupt withdrawal of his nomination. "It was a real bummer," Isaacman told the All-In podcast. "I got a call on Friday last week that the president had decided to go in a different direction."Isaacman's weekend was further ruined when news of the nomination withdrawal broke earlier than he'd expected.

2 days ago | lxer.com | Richard Speed

Raspberry Pi, a company started with the aim of democratizing computing and recreating the programming frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code. In a position paper titled "Why kids still need to learn to code in the age of AI," the company posits that simply shoving plain text into a generative AI and using whatever code it spits out out is not enough.

2 days ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

Raspberry Pi, a company started with the aim of democratizing computing and recreating the programming frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code. In a position paper titled "Why kids still need to learn to code in the age of AI," the company posits that simply shoving plain text into a generative AI and using whatever code it spits out out is not enough.

2 days ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky is to lead the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot teams in the latest Redmond reshuffle. Roslansky, who made the announcement on LinkedIn, will continue to run the social media for suits platform. The exec will report to Microsoft's Executive Vice President for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, and directly to Microsoft boss Satya Nadella as LinkedIn CEO.