This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage Errant code fix deleted entire servers rather than snapshots of database
This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again Flammable tape and unreliable parachutes ground craft this time around
Has Amazon found the ultimate lock-in? Cheap cellphone service for Prime Updated Web giant downplays rumors of deals with carriers
Laid-off 60-year-old Kyndryl exec says he was told IT giant wanted 'new blood' As spinoff quietly erases claim that average age in mainframe group was 35
Qbot malware adapts to live another day … and another … Operators stay ahead of defenders with new access methods and C2 infrastructure Research05 Jun 2023 |
Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've been waiting for If Ubuntu is getting you down, check out its grandad OSes05 Jun 2023 | 6
Air Force colonel 'misspoke' when he said an AI-drone 'killed' its human operator AI In Brief Plus: Around 3,900 jobs have been axed and replaced with AI, and Microsoft cosies up with a GPU provider to support OpenAI AI + ML05 Jun 2023 | 2
UK launches SKYNET – not a doomsday plot, just shopping for improved satellite comms They really need to start branding these things better Networks05 Jun 2023 | 7
Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs Opinion Intellectual property law crushed by zombie horde Software05 Jun 2023 | 31
Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file who, me? Pigs might fly before youngsters listened to IT instructions – so the IT manager made sure chickens came home to roost Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 39
The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023 Computex We crawled the gadget halls to save you the hassle Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 6
Raspberry Pi production rate rising to a million a month CEO stands by decision to keep prices steady instead of scoring sweet, sweet, windfall profits Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 16
Google veep calls out Microsoft's cloud software licensing 'tax' Don't miss Watchdogs 'starting to understand the situation,' exec tells El Reg
Australian cyber-op attacked ISIL with the terrifying power of Rickrolling Commanders in the field persuaded to give up, let their guard down, run around and desert their posts Security05 Jun 2023 | 6
Toyota admits to yet another cloud leak infosec in brief Also, hackers publish RaidForum user data, Google's $180k Chrome bug bounty, and this week's vulnerabilities Security05 Jun 2023 | 2
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China EV market share hits 27 percent as tax breaks extended Asia In Brief PLUS: Indonesia's digital success under the radar; Singapore picks Google AI; India claims streaming record Offbeat05 Jun 2023 | 5
This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage Errant code fix deleted entire servers rather than snapshots of database Devops03 Jun 2023 | 51
Uncle Sam wants DEF CON hackers to pwn this Moonlighter satellite in space Feature 'World's first and only' orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off Sunday Research03 Jun 2023 | 6
The downside of frenemies Are DevOps Tools a potential risk to your software supply chain security? Webinar
Intel says AI is overwhelming CPUs, GPUs, even clouds – so all Meteor Lakes get a VPU News Movidius tech already sprinkled on some 13th-gen Core silicon goes mainstream in next generation
Taiwan's titans bullish on challengers to x86 in the datacenter and beyond Coverage Game on as Nvidia, Arm, Ampere find enthusiastic locals who think buyers are open to alternatives
Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86 News Taiwan's big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI
WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC Amusing Very handy technology, literally
Broadcom says Nvidia Spectrum-X's 'lossless Ethernet' isn't new Also Been there, done that, SVP Ram Velaga tells El Reg
Microsoft Windows latest: Cortana app out, adverts in Get Help? Yes, we highly recommend it, Redmond OSes02 Jun 2023 | 75
Elon Musk hit with insider trading claims over his Dogecoin crypto-hype Claim: Billionaire banked big bread boosting bizarro-bucks Personal Tech02 Jun 2023 | 22
Has Amazon found the ultimate lock-in? Cheap cellphone service for Prime Updated Web giant downplays rumors of deals with carriers Networks02 Jun 2023 | 18
This ain't Boeing very well: Starliner's first crewed flight canceled yet again Flammable tape and unreliable parachutes ground craft this time around Science02 Jun 2023 | 72
Twitter loses second head of Trust and Safety under Musk And here we thought being lead moderator for Elon would be fun Personal Tech02 Jun 2023 | 22
Malaysia goes its own Huawei, won't ban Chinese vendor from 5G network Country to have two networks as first buildout falls behind schedule Security02 Jun 2023 | 21
Starlink bags US defense contract to keep war-torn Ukraine connected And poor Elon gets a break from subsidies Networks02 Jun 2023 | 13
Microsoft stashes nearly half a billion in case LinkedIn data drama hits Irish regulators sniffing around Facebook-for-suits subsidiary have threatened fine Legal02 Jun 2023 | 12
AI, extinction, nuclear war, pandemics ... That's expert open letter bingo News 'We need to prepare now'
Texas judge demands lawyers declare AI-generated docs Analysis After that New York case in which attorney cited ChatGPT-hallucinated proceedings as real
Eating disorder non-profit pulls chatbot for emitting 'harmful advice' News Just as helpline staff say they were laid off after forming a union
US Air Force AI drone 'killed operator, attacked comms towers in simulation' Final update Did ML-powered fighter actually go HAL 9000 to rack up points? Who knows
When the popular safeguarding tool is anything but How to stave off software supply chain attacks Webinar
Meta tells staff to return to office three days a week 'Engineers perform better in person' says Zuckerberg. Hang on, aren't you the defender of the Metaverse? On-Prem02 Jun 2023 | 56
Buckle up for meetings on the road as Cisco brings Webex to Audi autos Have you considered taking up cycling? Applications02 Jun 2023 | 31
Laid-off 60-year-old Kyndryl exec says he was told IT giant wanted 'new blood' As spinoff quietly erases claim that average age in mainframe group was 35 On-Prem02 Jun 2023 | 49
Google shows cloud customers it's happy to have an open relationship You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out PaaS + IaaS02 Jun 2023 | 1
Software rollout failure led to Devon & Cornwall cops recording zero crime for 3 months Updated It’s not a crime if you don’t have a record Software02 Jun 2023 | 27
Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget On Call Leaf and spine networks aren't the only way to make a connection with nature Networks02 Jun 2023 | 124
This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage Errant code fix deleted entire servers rather than snapshots of database
Raspberry Pi production rate rising to a million a month CEO stands by decision to keep prices steady instead of scoring sweet, sweet, windfall profits
Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file who, me? Pigs might fly before youngsters listened to IT instructions – so the IT manager made sure chickens came home to roost
Toyota admits to yet another cloud leak infosec in brief Also, hackers publish RaidForum user data, Google's $180k Chrome bug bounty, and this week's vulnerabilities
The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023 Computex We crawled the gadget halls to save you the hassle
Australian cyber-op attacked ISIL with the terrifying power of Rickrolling Commanders in the field persuaded to give up, let their guard down, run around and desert their posts
Meet TeamT5, the Taiwanese infosec outfit taking on Beijing and defeating its smears Living in the eye of the geopolitical storm is not easy, but is good for business
China EV market share hits 27 percent as tax breaks extended Asia In Brief PLUS: Indonesia's digital success under the radar; Singapore picks Google AI; India claims streaming record
Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs Opinion Intellectual property law crushed by zombie horde
Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've been waiting for If Ubuntu is getting you down, check out its grandad
This malicious PyPI package mixed source and compiled code to dodge detection Oh cool, something else to scan for Security02 Jun 2023 | 11
Bookings open for first all-electric flights around Scandinavia … in 2028 You'll need to be fast to score one of 30 tickets for planes that don't go very far Offbeat02 Jun 2023 | 49
You might have been phished by the gang that stole North Korea’s lousy rocket tech US, South Korea, warn 'Kimsuky' is a very sophisticated social engineer Security02 Jun 2023 | 12
What supply chain crisis? Supermicro lifts rack-scale system production Computex CEO Charles Liang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the 'locals made good' thing and the crowd loved it Systems02 Jun 2023 | 2
Millions of Gigabyte PC motherboards backdoored? What's the actual score? FAQ It's the 2020s and we're still running code automatically fetched over HTTP
Amazon finds something else AI can supposedly do well: Spotting damaged goods Any chance of an ML model to identify labor law violations? No? Surprise
Deployed publicly accessible MOVEit Transfer? Oh no. Mass exploitation underway Time to MOVEit, MOVEit. We don't like to MOVEit, MOVEit
Thinking straight in the SoC: How AI erases cognitive bias The whispering voice presents an alternative point of view to steer cyber security pros in the right direction
RAN intelligence and the pursuit of 5G energy-efficiency ZTE Radio Composer, PowerPilot Pro among initiatives toward greener, intent-driven networks
Consistent operating costs for databases How Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized puts predictability into I/O pricing
Cut the DRAM waste, cut the energy bill How ZeroPoint optimizes performance and energy use in datacenters with memory compression
California rolls closer to requiring drivers in driverless trucks Next: Alcohol in non-alcoholic booze, bacon in vegan salads. We kid, we kid
Kremlin claims Apple helped NSA spy on diplomats via iPhone backdoor Did we just time warp back to 2013?
Meta threatens to pull all news from California rather than pay El Reg a penny And, ahem, other publishers
Watchdog calls for automatic braking to be standard in cars When's the perfect time for a mandate? When everyone's already doing it Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 96
Microsoft embraces Apple Mac loyalists – as long as they're using its software iDevice admins now have a safe space where they can talk about M365 On-Prem01 Jun 2023 | 15
Boffins snap X-ray closeup of single atom – and by closeup we mean nanometres Achievement took 12 years of blood, sweat and science Science01 Jun 2023 | 8
Smartphone recovery that's always around the corner is around the corner Pay a bill or buy new phone? That lovely question facing some of us in 2023 Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 38
India official fined after draining reservoir to recover phone Dam it all to hell Offbeat01 Jun 2023 | 22
Linux Foundation and pals – including Intel – back software ecosystem around RISC-V Aiming to get a RISE out of processor architecture as tech giants commit engineering talent Systems01 Jun 2023 | 23
CRM giant Salesforce's focus on margins sees sales growth slip After activist investor pressure and job losses, professional services projects struggle SaaS01 Jun 2023 | 1
How to master multicloud from the ground to cloud (and back again) Bring multicloud to your organization by design, not default, says Dell Commissioned
Aurora rising: A massive machine for HPC and AI Analysis $200M for a 2-EFLOPS supercomputer is one hell of a deal, if true
The roads to zettascale and quantum computing are long and winding Analysis Take your time, you already have
US supers maintain grip on Top500 as China seemingly hides its powers The list Meanwhile Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table
SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims News LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models
What to expect from AMD's June datacenter, AI shindig Comment Could it be a cloudy Epyc, or a datacenter APU, maybe another cache-stacked X-chip?
UK.gov reboots ERP refresh with £934 million procurement Second time lucky? But departments still lack funding to complete strategy, watchdog says
Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick!
Ukraine war blurs lines between cyber-crims and state-sponsored attackers This RomCom is no laughing matter Cyber-crime01 Jun 2023 | 5
NASA experts looked through 800 UFO sightings and found essentially nothing Video We need better data! If only everyone could carry a high-quality camera and apps to share pics... Science01 Jun 2023 | 77
Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers Keep that hype train rolling, please AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 1