Biden wants SpaceX to beam internet to Iran amid uprising Er, did Joe forget who runs Starlink? Networks21 Oct 2022 | 7
TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 2
Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019 AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 1
Boffins shatter data transmission speed record One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet Science21 Oct 2022 | 13
OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released with Apple M2 support Plus better support for some newer Intel wireless and graphics chipsets OSes21 Oct 2022 | 7
Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason Can expensive tech save this reporter's ugly mug? Not likely Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 27
Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 21
Elon Musk reportedly wants to gut Twitter workforce by 75% Twitter tells staff it knows of no plans, though. Plus: billionaire's ventures could take heat from Committee on Foreign Investment Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 62
Walking on water with VAST and Dremio Moving from Hadoop to open data lakehouse on all-flash storage solutions Webinar
New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard Reg Standards Bureau We didn't have a time unit. That... is... a... disgrace Bootnotes21 Oct 2022 | 75
IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees Former staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme Systems21 Oct 2022 | 11
Good news, URSNIF no longer a banking trojan. Bad news, it's now a backdoor And one designed to slip ransomware and data-stealing code onto infected machines Research21 Oct 2022 | 1
Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit Science21 Oct 2022 | 15
Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs Canalys Channels Forum Productivity KPIs need a 21st century makeover, say tech bosses Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 31
To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess On Call We'd say this was a clear case of RTFM but this rig was so simple it didn't have a manual On-Prem21 Oct 2022 | 168
Infosys reverses opposition to staff taking side gigs Moonlighting is now now OK – if you do it the Infosys way, says CEO Salil Parekh Legal21 Oct 2022 | 7
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf Science21 Oct 2022 | 18
Team Interpol: Metaverse Police Attempted revival of virtual reality is only just beginning and already the cops just want to take a look around Bootnotes21 Oct 2022 | 15
Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time First Look Works well, but selection of available apps is meagre Virtualization21 Oct 2022 | 29
India fines Google $162 million for abusing Android monopoly That's a whole six hours of revenue, but requirements to open the Android ecosystem will hit harder OSes21 Oct 2022 | 1
Economic cold war looms as Chinese chipmakers feel sting of US trade restrictions Analysis The question is: how severe will the Middle Kindgom's response be? On-Prem21 Oct 2022 | 5
Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3 million patients' info Scream with us: Aaaaaa-AAH CSO20 Oct 2022 | 30
Amazon hit with $1bn claim that secretive Buy Box algorithm screws shoppers Internet mega-souk thinks allegations are a waste of Prime Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 22
Texas sues Google over alleged nonconsensual harvesting of biometric data You can kiss my Californian ass, says ad giant Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 13
California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists Science20 Oct 2022 | 31
DisplayPort standards bods school USB standards bods with latest revision Video Electronics Standards Association shows the USB Implementers Forum how it's done Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 36
Cloud migration and the cyber skills shortage Protecting applications off prem demands a fresh wave of security talent Sponsored Post
UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure Five-year blueprint to modernize tech estate, but cloud still not for everyone in finance sector PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 9
Musk grumbles about 'overpaying' for Twitter but says he's excited Tick tick tick ... just 8 days to go Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 34
Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water' Science20 Oct 2022 | 12
BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be 'one of the largest' in years SOCRadar says sensitive info from 150,000 orgs was exposed, Redmond disputes findings Research20 Oct 2022 | 4
Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce What connects a decaying salad vegetable with something called 'the 1922 Committee'? Enter the wonderful and frightening world of British politics Bootnotes20 Oct 2022 | 356
Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal' Why does it always rain on renters, asks CTO? Networks20 Oct 2022 | 22
Ubuntu 22.10 is out, with an extra remix in the family: Unity Linux wunderkind's project now an official flavor as 'Kinetic Kudu' brings nine months of updates OSes20 Oct 2022 | 11
How did ESA's gamma ray-spotting 'scope make it to 20? They totally overdid it We speak to the boffins behind the mission about hits, misses, engineering, and that extraordinary near death scrape Science20 Oct 2022 | 6
Hardware makers criticized for eco double standards CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Don't penalize resellers for selling refurbished kit, educate shareholders on being Earth's friend Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 7
President Biden still wants his cybersecurity labels on those smart devices May follow Finland and Germany in adopting Singapore's standard Security20 Oct 2022 | 17
Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 34
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 23
NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap Changes follow astronaut's headgear filling with water during seven-hour star trek Science20 Oct 2022 | 18
Confidentiality in the cloud: the delicate bargain of trust How hardware-assisted data security can boost the integrity of sensitive data sets stored in cloud environments Sponsored Feature
AWS Snowball edge compute capacity snowballs beyond 100 vCPUs, 400GB of memory There's a fat AMD Rome under the hood and 28TB of storage too On-Prem20 Oct 2022 |
Hong Kong hopes to trawl the world for tech talent to build IT city Wanted: AI experts, data scientists, fintech folk, willing to work in the shadow of repressive regime On-Prem20 Oct 2022 | 35
SolarWinds and Dynatrace directors resign over antitrust concerns DoJ cracks down on competing companies that share board members Software20 Oct 2022 | 3
Health insurer's infosec incident diagnosis goes from 'take a chill pill' to emergency ward Updated Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers Cyber-crime20 Oct 2022 | 11
CISA warns of security holes in industrial Advantech, Hitachi kit When we concede that everything has bugs, we wish it wasn't quite everything Patches20 Oct 2022 | 2
Cost of a health insurance security breach? NY watchdogs say it's $4.5m Hundreds of thousands of people's sensitive info poorly protected CSO19 Oct 2022 | 1
IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week Exclusive And would you believe it, employees are not thrilled On-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 20
Intel sued over historic DEC chip site's future Exclusive Everyone cool with us plonking down a massive warehouse here? No? Oh well On-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 22
Verizon prepaid accounts hijacked by SIM swap crooks Nightmare for those with one-time security codes texted to their phones Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2022 | 6
Amid losses, Uber driven to become advertising network Don't want to see ads during your trip? Sorry, no app for that Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 21
DuckDuckGo's macOS browser hits public beta Remember, remember, the Microsoft trackers Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 4
The only Windows 10 updates for the year are coming. Spoiler alert: It's just security What did you expect, HoloLens-ready Minesweeper and new skins for Calculator? OSes19 Oct 2022 | 12
Google submits Go apps container project to Cloud Native Computing Foundation Did we say donate? We meant submit. Megacorp swiftly KOs former blog title Devops19 Oct 2022 | 1
Founder of zero-emissions truck venture Nikola found guilty of $1b fraud Verdict in for trial where promo vid showed gravity rather than batteries or fuel cells keeping electric truck moving Science19 Oct 2022 | 26
SpaceX's in-flight Wi-Fi, Starlink Aviation, takes to the skies Oh c'mon! Was it too much to expect Skynet? Networks19 Oct 2022 | 10
Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security OK, boomer – how do I turn off cookies? CSO19 Oct 2022 | 72
Next-gen Thunderbolt capable of 120Gbps for 8K displays Oh snap. It's not going to work with existing passive cables if they're longer than a meter Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 24
Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7
So, the US, China, and Russia walk into an infosec conference Suffice to say things got a little awkward CSO19 Oct 2022 | 3
Gartner thinks enterprise IT will be immune to recession Tech dept still wearing halo from saving companies in lockdown... plus cloud committers 'can't cut that spending' PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 12
Tear in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric can give attackers full admin privileges Orca Security disclosed the bug, and older versions remain vulnerable Research19 Oct 2022 |
Cisco's latest switch packs 32 800G ports into a pizza box If you need even more speed, Nvidia and Broadcom have silicon twice as fast Networks19 Oct 2022 | 5
How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 66
FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor "Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines Virtualization19 Oct 2022 | 8
Global smartphone sales come tumbling down as reality bites Inflation and energy prices force consumers to prioritize household bills over shiny electronic devices Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 17
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CEO told to die in a car crash after firing engineers who had two full-time jobs Poll Boss says it was 'stealing' – but what do you think? Offbeat19 Oct 2022 | 208
Germany stands down cyber boss over Russian ties Involvement with lobby group that welcomed Putin's pals presses buttons Security19 Oct 2022 | 14
Kakao CEO quits, South Korea hits emergency button after dire datacenter blaze Almost, but not quite, that moment of Big Tech accountability you've been waiting for Off-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 4
NASA AI shows slashing sulfur in shipping fuel cut air pollution at sea COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 8
The great semiconductor drought may be about to break Or maybe we've just lost our appetite. Either way, lead times are very slowly on the mend On-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 9
Lenovo reveals rollable laptop and smartphone screens Can't say when they’ll roll out for sale or why you want kit with more moving parts Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 14
India to lead drive for global crypto regulations to bust money laundering As president of the G20, it will have the platform to make it happen Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 4
Manufacturers could be forced to include repair instructions Fix-it guides among changes mulled by FTC for home appliances and potentially other stuff Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 27
FBI: Looking for Biden's student loan forgiveness? Watch out for these scams You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and steal identities? Cyber-crime19 Oct 2022 | 8
Jim McDivitt, NASA Apollo mission astronaut, dies at 93 Tributes paid to Air Force veteran who helped make first US spacewalk possible Science18 Oct 2022 | 9
YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 108
Apple remembers it makes iPads, updates fondleslabs Goodbye Lightning, hello USB-C and the usual two-year-old processor Personal Tech18 Oct 2022 | 10
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'Fully undetectable' Windows backdoor gets detected SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2022 | 20
NSA urges enterprises to watch China, Taiwan tensions Have you thought about your supply chains, partnerships, and how far they reach? Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2022 | 2
When the chips fall: Intel preps for $16b Mobileye IPO Far cry from the $50 billion valuation Gelsinger hoped would fuel foundry empire Systems18 Oct 2022 | 2
Meta gives up fight to get $400m Giphy buy approved Facebook to dump GIF super-gallery after just enough pestering from UK Personal Tech18 Oct 2022 | 14
Self-driving tech startup values crash 81% in 2 years LiDAR companies lead the pack, with valuations plummeting up to 99% since IPO AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 24
Meta shares latest hardware – you can't wear it on your face, so don't panic More capable kit ready for more demanding machine learning tasks Systems18 Oct 2022 | 1
FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7 An open source rival to Ableton OSes18 Oct 2022 | 4
Firefox 106 will let you type directly into browser PDFs Sorry Adobe but we can let users type or even hand-write directly Software18 Oct 2022 | 86
Classiq works with Rolls-Royce on quantum boost for simulations It's plane to see it wants more info on fluid dynamics of flying engines HPC18 Oct 2022 | 2
Moon has been drifting away from Earth for 2.4 billion years, rocks reveal Even our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity Science18 Oct 2022 | 39
Microsoft makes another round of jobs cuts amid slowing economy Around 1,000 souls reportedly tossed onto employment bonfire Off-Prem18 Oct 2022 | 4
UK government in talks with datacenter operators over blackouts Bit barns say they need diesel fuel supplies for backup generators On-Prem18 Oct 2022 | 55
Upstart Ransom Cartel linked to REvil veterans Lesser of two REvils? There’s a relationship, say infosec bods, but not enough to say one evolved into the other Cyber-crime18 Oct 2022 | 4
Foxconn shows off pair of EVs, boasts of bulk orders for last year's model Now selling vehicles others can brand, plus software any auto-maker can access Offbeat18 Oct 2022 | 27
Boffins propose Slinky-like robot that can build stuff in space E-Walker is a 'seven degrees-of-freedom fully dexterous end-over-end walking robot' Science18 Oct 2022 | 19
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Children should have separate sections in social media sites, says UK coroner Also recommends age verification as Meta tells The Reg it's working on parental controls Networks18 Oct 2022 | 86
Imagine surviving a wiper attack only for ransomware to scramble your restored files Then again, imagine being invaded by Russia Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2022 | 4
Japanese giants to offer security-as-a-service for connected cars NTT Communications and Toyota’s parts maker Denso plan a ‘Security Operation Centre for Vehicles’ Security18 Oct 2022 | 20
Cops swoop after crooks use wireless keyfob hack to steal cars Hotwiring is so 2021 Cyber-crime18 Oct 2022 | 113
Huawei rolls dice, adds exec heads to enterprise and carrier divisions amid troubled times Wang and Li appointed following death of Ryan Ding Networks18 Oct 2022 | 3
AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS Citrix can do this too. Hyperconverged infrastructure's salad days serving virtual PCs might be ending Virtualization18 Oct 2022 | 3
China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame On-Prem18 Oct 2022 | 86
Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6
Ex-WSJ reporter says he was framed in elaborate 'hack-and-smear' operation Wild story of a multinational law firm, cyber-mercenaries, a sheikh, and more Cybersecurity Month18 Oct 2022 | 12
NASA's Lucy probe dodges space traffic around Earth in gravity-assist flyby Spacecraft coming through, outta the way, watch your step, we're heading to Jupiter Science17 Oct 2022 | 5
Broadcom to spin VMware takeover as creating 'more competition' in cloud Chip giant flutters eyelashes at Europe in hope of early acqusition Virtualization17 Oct 2022 | 8
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments Science17 Oct 2022 | 38
Artist formerly known as Kanye reveals Parler trick: Buying the far-right haven Used to tweeting? Get ready for Yeeting Bootnotes17 Oct 2022 | 76
US Dept of Energy injects more particles of cash into tokamak fusion reactors The funding will continue, until the atoms fuse Science17 Oct 2022 | 28
Interpol busts global 'Black Axe' cyber-fraud suspects 75 collars felt, $1.2m seized in bid to cut off crime network’s financial lifeline Cyber-crime17 Oct 2022 | 3
Juno offering Linux-powered tablet PC for pre-order The company already sells penguin-infested laptops and desktops, but an x86 Linux fondleslab is new Personal Tech17 Oct 2022 | 16
EU companies claim Google still abusing its Shopping power Search giant's 'Shopping Units need to go,' say coalition of 43 online comparison tools Legal17 Oct 2022 | 9
Samsung, TSMC in US patent infringement investigation Complaint filed by Daedalus Prime – wasn't he a Transformer? Systems17 Oct 2022 | 6
Google reveals another experimental operating system: KataOS Based on Rust, on top of seL4 – a big deal in the microkernel world OSes17 Oct 2022 | 27
Musk says Starlink will keep providing free service to Ukraine 'Even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $' Networks17 Oct 2022 | 25
China-linked Budworm burrows hole in US legislature systems In brief Also, Senator Warren says banks need to grow the Zelle up, an AirTag does some good – if you’re a Democrat, and more Security17 Oct 2022 | 7
Too bad, contractors: UK government reverses decision to axe IR35 tax reform Latest U-turn follows a series of clown-car maneuvers that spooked financial markets Legal17 Oct 2022 | 188
TSMC downgraded as analysts warn of worst slump in a decade Some estimates say the sector will have contracted by as much as 23% by the end Systems17 Oct 2022 | 9
Vodafone to move SAP S/4HANA ERP system to Google Cloud Spare a thought for the techies hauling on-prem mega-platform of one of world's biggest mobile companies to the fluffy stuff Databases17 Oct 2022 | 17
UK regulator proposes price cap on Motorola as supplier of Airwave network Home Office and emergency services appear to be locked in with monopoly provider, market watchdog says Networks17 Oct 2022 | 14
Oil company Castrol slips and slides into immersion cooling Diversification much? Datacenter energy arm part of larger $50m+ battery test center, electric vehicle lab On-Prem17 Oct 2022 | 18
Starlink, shot by both sides in Ukrainian fracas, lives to fight on Opinion Jam today, jam tomorrow? Networks17 Oct 2022 | 44
Meta mad as hell over allegations it let Indian politicians block content Local outlet claims to have insider docs that prove takedown powers. Meta says they're fake. And around and around they go Legal17 Oct 2022 | 8
Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline Release candidate one for Linux 6.1 has appeared OSes17 Oct 2022 | 57
Loathsome eighties ladder-climber levelled by a custom DOS prompt Who, Me? This wasn't WarGames – it was far more serious Software17 Oct 2022 | 112
Microsoft extends Azure Hybrid benefit to some on-prem software Azure Stack HCI and Azure Kubernetes Service can be free for Windows Server customers. Microsoft hopes that price will encourage you to stick around Software17 Oct 2022 |
Phishing works so well crims won't bother with deepfakes, says Sophos chap People reveal passwords if you ask nicely, so AI panic is overblown Research17 Oct 2022 | 15
Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants Sub-par disaster recovery plans leave Naver and Kakao with savage service interruptions Off-Prem17 Oct 2022 | 7
Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research Asia In Brief Samsung and TSMC hit with chip tech patent suit; Ant Group's DB hits AWS; PayPal drops Hong Kong rights group; and more Security16 Oct 2022 | 5
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art In brief Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode AI + ML16 Oct 2022 | 37
How to watch NASA Jupiter probe's flyby of Earth Lucy in the sky, with good-byes, then Science16 Oct 2022 | 10