Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns Talk about going round the (South) Bend PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2024 |
Cops cuff man for allegedly framing colleague with AI-generated hate speech clip Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 1
Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls' Cash to go out as refunds to punters Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 5
ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 12
FCC votes 3-2 to bring net neutrality back from the dead Law responds again to pings Networks25 Apr 2024 | 1
Detecting drift and dealing with the Silicon Valley mindset Interview Pulumi's CEO on new products and that other Infrastructure as Code company Software25 Apr 2024 |
Two cuffed in Samourai Wallet crypto dirty money sting Suspects in Portugal and the US said to have laundered over $100M Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 |
TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 Watch out Intel ... Angstrom-class A16 with Super Rail backside power tech incoming Systems25 Apr 2024 | 2
Spotify claims Apple wants 'tax' for in-app pricing tweak App maker accuses Cupertino of defying EU rules Applications25 Apr 2024 | 11
DARPA's latest toy is a 20-foot, 12-ton tank that drives itself Crew entirely optional Offbeat25 Apr 2024 | 22
City council audit trail is an audit fail after disastrous Oracle ERP rollout Europe's largest local authority had no way of knowing if fraud took place Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 21
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SK hynix breaks Q1 revenue records on back of AI boom Memory biz ditches NAND production plans to make more crucial HBM tech Storage25 Apr 2024 |
Russia, Iran pose most aggressive threat to 2024 elections, say infoseccers Google security crew reveal ‘the four Ds’ to be on the watch for Cyber-crime25 Apr 2024 | 5
Meta's value plummets as Zuckerberg admits AI needs more time and money Revenues up, but is the AI hype bubble is threatening to burst? AI + ML25 Apr 2024 | 22
Atos hopes for lifeline as refinancing saga set to drag on into May Struggling French tech giant posts disappointing Q1 results On-Prem25 Apr 2024 | 4
Japan's Moon lander makes it through another lunar night What do we say to the God of Death? Not today Science25 Apr 2024 | 9
Turns out teaching criminals to write web code keeps them out of prison The software redemption Devops25 Apr 2024 | 19
Throwflame launches fire-spitting robo-dog from Hell The Thermonator can be yours for just $9,420 Bootnotes25 Apr 2024 | 48
Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble Tech giants confident everything's in order AI + ML25 Apr 2024 | 2
What to do in the age of the critical breach Why the triple threat of ransomware, data breaches, and extortion is a cybersecurity crisis
BMW calls for vendor openness in quest to mine its own processes 'Software companies try to extend their reach and their usage, but this can't be by locking in users,' says process mining lead Applications25 Apr 2024 | 9
Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful Systems Approach Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters Software25 Apr 2024 | 19
Indian bank’s IT is so shabby it’s been banned from opening new accounts After two years of warnings, and outages, regulators ran out of patience with Kotak Mahindra Bank Security25 Apr 2024 | 13
Samsung shows off battery tech it says will see you gone in nine minutes Might help to set spluttering EV market on fire. Won't catch fire thanks to built-in vents Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 141
Easing the cloud migration journey Huawei’s Net5.5G converged IP network can improve cloud performance, reliability and security, says the company Sponsored Feature
IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4B, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints Off-Prem25 Apr 2024 | 18
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors And warn that AI is already being used by extremists to plot attacks Public Sector25 Apr 2024 | 75
Governments issue alerts after 'sophisticated' state-backed actor found exploiting flaws in Cisco security boxes Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too Security24 Apr 2024 | 9
With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs AI + ML24 Apr 2024 |
Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 9
Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher Opinion It's the millions-of-robotaxis promise again – and all y'all buying it this time, too? Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 75
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done' Public Sector24 Apr 2024 | 19
Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again' And you thought the Bing begging was annoying OSes24 Apr 2024 | 86
Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop The SODIMM replacement finally arrives Systems24 Apr 2024 | 5
Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers? Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough Security24 Apr 2024 | 2
US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else On-Prem24 Apr 2024 | 38
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares Offbeat24 Apr 2024 | 26
Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability CSO24 Apr 2024 | 10
Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities Security24 Apr 2024 | 10
Java thriving after 30 years Why OpenJDK is as important as ever in the big picture of IT Sponsored Feature
US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies Their holiday options are now far more restricted Cyber-crime24 Apr 2024 |
Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison PaaS + IaaS24 Apr 2024 | 16
Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 65
Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers Updated CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing' Virtualization24 Apr 2024 | 1
European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 44
Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs Video Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 20
Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand Offbeat24 Apr 2024 | 120
Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate Interview Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators Systems24 Apr 2024 | 1
Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors Databases24 Apr 2024 | 5
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all Research24 Apr 2024 | 93
Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles Software24 Apr 2024 | 2
China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines Systems24 Apr 2024 | 8
Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban Updated Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA! Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 79
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics Public Sector24 Apr 2024 | 42
White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 21
Intel Foundry ticks another box in quest to fab mil-spec chips for US DoD Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors Public Sector23 Apr 2024 |
Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets Comment Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims Systems23 Apr 2024 | 1
Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists Strange tales from San Francisco AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 54
Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers Graphics giant and partners say they're clean – it's all technically legit Systems23 Apr 2024 | 4
Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics Networks23 Apr 2024 | 18
Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts Storage23 Apr 2024 | 3
SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages Science23 Apr 2024 | 23
Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0 What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway? Software23 Apr 2024 | 14
GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up Databases23 Apr 2024 | 17
iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end From first place to third as local brands grow Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 15
Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 11
AI at the edge: from theory to practice How AI at the edge offers potential to provide valuable, real-time insights to better navigate complex data and opportunities Commissioned
Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers Electricity goes both ways as bit barns in Dublin aim to cut emissions and boost the bank On-Prem23 Apr 2024 | 18
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS OSes23 Apr 2024 | 242
SAP cloud swells its topline, but profits slide Cloud migration good for margins, CEO says Databases23 Apr 2024 |
Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever The 'big victory for the good guys' shouldn't be celebrated too much, though Security23 Apr 2024 | 2
UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America' That said, good ol' American healthcare system so elaborately costly, some are forced to avoid altogether Cyber-crime23 Apr 2024 | 13
Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory All from billions of miles away Science23 Apr 2024 | 40
Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7 City council says it lost control after shutting down systems Cyber-crime23 Apr 2024 | 47
Silicon Valley roundabout has drivers in a spin Accidents at intersection quadruple Bootnotes23 Apr 2024 | 82
Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution Risky bet? Premium price with 'no demonstrable benefits'? It doesn't sound like an order avalanche Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 26
Over a million Neighbourhood Watch members exposed through web app bug Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process Security23 Apr 2024 | 28
Meta comms chief handed six-year Russian prison sentence for 'justifying terrorism' Memo to Andy Stone: Don't go to Moscow for your holidays Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 27
European Commission to suspend TikTok's new rewards program, open second probe For some reason the world's most notorious app decided not to tick all boxes under the world’s toughest digital law Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 6
Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam Outsourcers outsourced work for the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max to the hermit kingdom Cyber-crime23 Apr 2024 | 17
Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight +Comment Yet X remains a supporter of The Christchurch Call, an international agreement to stop video nasties Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 59
Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 9
Old Windows print spooler bug is latest target of Russia's Fancy Bear gang Putin's pals use 'GooseEgg' malware to launch attacks you can defeat with patches or deletion Security23 Apr 2024 | 7
Protest group says Google has fired more staff over sit-ins opposing work for Israel Group of now-ex Googlers say 50 folks have been let go, vow ongoing protests Off-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 75
Tokyo wags finger at Google for blocking Yahoo Japan! from using ad tech Seven years of stonewalling and no consequences for advertising giant Off-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 3
FBI and friends get two more years of warrantless FISA Section 702 snooping Senate kills reform amendments, Biden swiftly signs bill into law Public Sector22 Apr 2024 | 9
Ex-CEO of 'unicorn' app startup HeadSpin heads to jail after BS'ing investors Lachwani faked it but didn't make it Applications22 Apr 2024 | 7
Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide Chinese tech juggernaut eyes global expansion despite US tech restrictions OSes22 Apr 2024 | 25
Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet Because nothing reassures investors like discounting some inventory Personal Tech22 Apr 2024 | 85
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman invests in solar power firm Exowatt to fuel AI datacenters $20m to keep the industry from having to rely on fossil fuels On-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 3
Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script The Reg accepts no responsibility for borked installations OSes22 Apr 2024 | 8
Europol now latest cops to beg Big Tech to ditch E2EE Don't bore us, get to the chorus: You need less privacy so we can protect the children Security22 Apr 2024 | 24
Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever KDE edition has the most conspicuous changes, and could become future flagship OSes22 Apr 2024 | 4
Germany arrests trio accused of trying to smuggle naval military tech to China Prosecutors believe one frikkin' laser did make its way to Beijing Public Sector22 Apr 2024 | 1
Lawsuit accuses Grindr of illegally sharing users' HIV status LGBTQ+ dating app's maker previously denied selling sensitive user data Applications22 Apr 2024 | 5
Gone in 35 seconds – the Cybertruck's misbehaving acceleration pedal Riveting conclusion to Tesla recall saga Personal Tech22 Apr 2024 | 73
Watchdog tells Dutch govt: 'Do not use Facebook if there is uncertainty about privacy' Meta insists it's just misunderstood and it's safe to talk to citizens over FB Security22 Apr 2024 | 9
More than a third of enterprise datacenters expect to deploy liquid cooling by 2026 Survey Which one of you is already running 100-plus kilowatt racks? On-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 2
US House passes fresh TikTok ban proposal to Senate Sadly no push to end stupid TikTok dances, but ByteDance would have year to offload app stateside Security22 Apr 2024 | 36
Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 42
Copilot auto-launch bug now takes flight in multiple Windows Insider channels Clippy 2024 is something else OSes22 Apr 2024 | 11
UK data watchdog questions how private Google's Privacy Sandbox is Leaked draft report says stated goals still come up short Security22 Apr 2024 | 3
Has the ever-present cyber danger just got worse? Facing down the triple threat of ransomware, data breaches and criminal extortion Webinar
FAA now requires reentry vehicles to get licensed before launch Commercial operators must try Varda Science22 Apr 2024 | 9
IT consultant-cum-developer in court over hiding COVID-19 loan Syzmon Jastrzebski bagged six figures, money written off as he's left the country Software22 Apr 2024 | 43
Google all at sea over rising tide of robo-spam Opinion What if it's not AI but the algorithm to blame? Security22 Apr 2024 | 38
Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness Who, Me? For once, Redmond's finest saved the day - by being rubbish in unexpectedly useful ways Security22 Apr 2024 | 89
Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines For now, Redmond is dogfooding Azure for product simulations AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 5
Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU The processor that gave the world the ZX Spectrum and so much more is out of wafers Systems22 Apr 2024 | 82
Researchers claim Windows Defender can be fooled into deleting databases BLACK HAT ASIA Two rounds of reports and patches may not have completely closed this hole Security22 Apr 2024 | 17
China creates 'Information Support Force' to improve networked defence capabilities A day after FBI boss warns Beijing is poised to strike against US infrastructure Public Sector22 Apr 2024 | 10
MITRE admits 'nation state' attackers touched its NERVE R&D operation Infosec In Brief PLUS: Akira ransomware resurgent; Telehealth outfit fined for data-sharing; This week's nastiest vulns Security22 Apr 2024 | 3
Elon Musk's X to challenge Australian content takedown orders in court Asia In Brief PLUS: Samsung in 'emergency mode'; Tim Cook's Asian charm tour; APAC AI spend to surge Public Sector22 Apr 2024 | 51
Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director Interview With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer Public Sector21 Apr 2024 | 111
Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too powerful to release VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking AI + ML20 Apr 2024 | 41
Lightweight LXQt 2.0.0 updates to same toolkit as KDE Plasma 6 4-letter survivor's move to Qt 6 means that, love it or hate it, Wayland is looming OSes20 Apr 2024 | 18
Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: 'Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage' Personal Tech20 Apr 2024 | 167
A knotty problem: Boffins working on fuel-efficient trajectories for space travel Not yet the London Underground style efficient schematic we want, but it's a start Science20 Apr 2024 | 26
Google squashes AI teams together in push for fresh models You can leave your personal vendettas at home – we have work to do, Pichai warns AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 14
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind Networks19 Apr 2024 | 5
Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped Police say this appears to be a 'deliberate act.' Cyber-crime19 Apr 2024 | 44
NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth Updated Look out for a new star next week Science19 Apr 2024 | 21
Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate Hot on the heels of Ubuntu Noble beta come the betas of the Qt-based remixes, with some interesting differences OSes19 Apr 2024 | 38
AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity On-Prem19 Apr 2024 | 16
WhatsApp, Threads, more banished from Apple App Store in China Still available in Hong Kong and Macau, for now Security19 Apr 2024 | 9
Unintended acceleration leads to recall of every Cybertruck produced so far That isn't what Tesla meant by Full Self-Driving Offbeat19 Apr 2024 | 104
A quarter of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones, says regulator Social media use and gaming show steep increases within the age group, after UK comms watchdog given new powers Personal Tech19 Apr 2024 | 57
Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands Cyber-crime19 Apr 2024 | 21
Germany cuffs alleged Russian spies over plot to bomb industrial and military targets Apparently an attempt to damage Ukraine's war effort Security19 Apr 2024 | 5
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95 No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest Offbeat19 Apr 2024 | 80
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware Networks19 Apr 2024 | 280
Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting On-Prem19 Apr 2024 | 122
UK unions publish AI bill to protect workers from 'risks and harms' of tech TUC questions government's approach so far AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 3
Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises Kirin 9010 SoC powering the Pura 70 is impressive, but doesn't indicate unforeseen prowess Personal Tech19 Apr 2024 | 13
Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1
Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking Plans multilingual 400 billion parameter version, but starts with more modest fare AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 8