Apple joins the opposition to encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law
Not the iPhone maker's first think-of-the-children rodeo
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website
A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge
Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath
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We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key
Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players
Analysis Enterprises want a single data platform for data lakes and warehouse, but tech's not there yet, say analysts
Databases29 Jun 2023 |
Mummy and Daddy Musk think Elon's cage fight against Zuck is a terrible idea
Bizarrely, there's been no suggestion that the bout won't happen
Offbeat29 Jun 2023 | 13
Memory chipmaker Micron's sales down 57% as market bottoms out
Company eyes return to memory growth, but warns life on the China ban-list could be hard
Systems29 Jun 2023 |
Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon
Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense
OSes29 Jun 2023 | 9
Employers losing 'key' workers because of forced return to office
Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
On-Prem29 Jun 2023 | 54
Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess
Decision to adapt software now subject of an independent management investigation
Databases29 Jun 2023 | 11
UK's dream of fusion power by 2040s will need GPUs
Boffins plan 'digital twin' to help hit deadline, recruit heavy-hitting partners
Science29 Jun 2023 | 10
Apple joins the opposition to encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law
Not the iPhone maker's first think-of-the-children rodeo
Security29 Jun 2023 | 37
Google uses India to test ‘deliver to the house near the post office’ feature
Ads and search giant also open sources offensive stereotype database, and gives Amazon a poke
Software29 Jun 2023 | 10
Samsung to start mass producing 2nm silicon in 2025, first for mobile devices
Forms a packaging posse to do the chiplet thing
On-Prem29 Jun 2023 | 6
Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud
Only for Ampere – but with a licencing twist that means Intel and AMD can't relax
Databases29 Jun 2023 | 2
Network security guy in extradition tug of war between US and Russia
Group-IB spinout confirms Kislitsin is wanted by both Washington and Moscow
Cyber-crime29 Jun 2023 | 5
Guess who's quietly bankrolling a legal fight against Montana's TikTok ban. Why yes, it's TikTok
Psst, some American user data still stored in China, too
Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 9
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT
Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 15
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath
Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key
On-Prem28 Jun 2023 | 25
Healthcare moves forward in the cloud
How global healthcare and life sciences organizations can derive benefits working with AWS Partners on cloud projects
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Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website
A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
Devops28 Jun 2023 | 26
It's time to mark six decades of computer networking
Systems Approach As we yearn for a return to a truly decentralized internet
Networks28 Jun 2023 | 37
SAE says yes to making Tesla EV chargers an American standard
Another win for Musk: Ford, GM, Rivian and Volvo have already announced plans to dump CCS
Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 17
California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull
Fraudulent cash cow milked investors for almost $9M
Offbeat28 Jun 2023 | 26
US mulls tightening ban on AI chips to China
To protect against weapons or economic interests – either way, it's bad news for some vendors
Systems28 Jun 2023 | 5
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge
Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
OSes28 Jun 2023 | 138
Comms watchdog to probe errors that left Brits unable to make emergency calls
Police reported backlog of 999 calls after unspecified technical error
Networks28 Jun 2023 | 37
HIRING AND FIRING
Betting on AI leads to more educated juniors, fewer mid-level bosses – study
PHBs should fear the PFYs with the ML skills, not the BOFHs
Bad times are just starting for India's IT outsourcers, says JP Morgan
All of FY2024 is going to be a 'washout'
2 in 5 tech job interviews offered exclusively to men: report
Data shows there's still some way to go toward pay and hiring equity
Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDC
Brush up on your coding – more tech jobs are going to be hybrids that mix ops and software, or require AI skills
Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value'
Plans to bulk brainbox workforce by 40,000, months after ejecting 19,000 accountants and HR types
EU launches 4 testbeds to put AI tech through its paces before it goes to market
The labs will look at AI and robotics for manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and cities
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 5
Fire-resistant drones promise to help rescuers in a hot spot
NASA space suits provide inspiration to Swiss and Brit boffins
Science28 Jun 2023 | 2
Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner
Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world
Software28 Jun 2023 | 86
You may have heard about AI defeating voice authentication. This research kinda proves it
Proof-of-concept study shows it's possible to bypass high levels of security, sometimes, sorta
AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 14
Where performance matters for the digital worker
Specifying PCs to meet the exact needs of individual workers is key to boosting productivity, explains Intel
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Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them
There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 73
Microsoft postpones death date for personally licensed Teams Rooms hardware
The 'upgrade' is free, yet an amnesty is needed despite months of warning
Software28 Jun 2023 | 16
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits
They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Legal28 Jun 2023 | 60
Rust: not hard to learn but is slow to compile, according to Google internal survey
Open VSX alternative to VS Code Marketplace saved from closure by new Eclipse working group
Smaller, faster, less legacy: Four years after last major release, Svelte 4 arrives
AWS to remove 62,000-message Simple Email Service ‘always free’ tier from August 2023
Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary
Windows PCs in the cloud, spending Sony out of business, mobile woes, and more – and the files to read
Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 26
Cisco buys SamKnows to give ThousandEyes a look at millions of endpoints
Packets you make at home or on mobile devices are in Switchzilla's sights, to make hybrid workers happy
Networks27 Jun 2023 | 8
Think of our cafes and dry cleaners, says Ohio as budget slashes WFH for govt workers
These expensive office buildings aren't for decoration – and that goes for the rest of ya, too
On-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 44
The rise and rise of the open-source RDBMS
How relational database providers like AWS offer its customers the freedom to innovate
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Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits
They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge
Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them
There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner
Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT
Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website
A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
Employers losing 'key' workers because of forced return to office
Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Warning: JavaScript registry npm vulnerable to 'manifest confusion' abuse
Failure to match metadata with packaged files is perfect for supply chain attacks
Miscreants leak texts and info siphoned by Android stalkerware app LetMeSpy
Just as America's Supremes set a high bar for cyberstalking
Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary
Windows PCs in the cloud, spending Sony out of business, mobile woes, and more – and the files to read
STORIES
Miscreants leak texts and info siphoned by Android stalkerware app LetMeSpy
Just as America's Supremes set a high bar for cyberstalking
Cyber-crime27 Jun 2023 | 9
Cops' total pwnage of 'secure' EncroChat nets 6,500+ arrests, €740m in funds – so far
Or so the Europlod says
Cyber-crime27 Jun 2023 | 10
NIST boffins shrink atomic beam clock to the size of a postage stamp
It's not the most accurate atomic clock in the world, but the NIST team behind it believes they can fix that
Science27 Jun 2023 | 14
AWS to expand Ohio bit barns to the tune of $7.8B
Still the most profitable arm of Bezos's biz
PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3
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Who are you calling a VLOP? asks German web fashionista
Server shipments fall ... just as AI drives demand for costlier kit
Conflicting feedback makes 2023 an especially difficult year to predict
TCS bags £234M Teachers' Pensions deal as Capita set to end 29-year run
Indian firm nabs 10-year contract, taking pensions wins to £1.73B
Dialup-era developer writes ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1
Next on the agenda: ClippyGPT, because why not?
Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 52
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life
James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Science27 Jun 2023 | 30
IBM bets $4.6 billion that cloud bills and IT sprawl will be enduring problems
Acquires Apptio and plans 'virtual command center' for multicloud
Off-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 10
Japan kind-of nationalizes key chipmaking material-maker JSR
If the US or Europe dare criticize this deal, it would be rank hypocrisy
On-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 9
Databricks snaps up MosaicML to build private, custom machine models
Analysis Acquisition means for both parties get a shot at leading the roll-your-own AI market
AI + ML27 Jun 2023 | 2
Alphabet, Bharti Airtel to bridge India's digital divide with frickin' laser beams
Dr Evil would be proud
Networks27 Jun 2023 | 9
Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API
Tech tweaked ahead of rollout in July, Mozilla and Apple still not interested
Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 59
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Biden lines up $42.5B for US broadband boost
You get funding, you get funding, everybody gets funding
Networks26 Jun 2023 | 14
Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart
Website can't use state contract law to police copyrights it doesn't own
Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 44
NASA and miners face off over lithium deposits at satellite calibration site
There's smartphone batteries to be mined, but at what cost?
Science26 Jun 2023 | 15
'Joan Is Awful' Black Mirror episode rebounds on Netflix
Streaming biz terms and conditions searches jump 1,524%
Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 53
Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M, claiming his email has been useless since May
Alleges he's still locked out and at risk of losing his licenses over missing comms
After decades contributing to science, John Goodenough powers down
Obit The American lithium-ion battery inventor has died aged 100
American and Southwest Airlines pilot candidate data exposed
Time to start practising identity protection
Iceotope cooks plan for liquid-cooled servers at the edge
Self-contained immersion-cooled chassis aimed at telcos, 5G RAN deployments with HPE, Intel help
Systems26 Jun 2023 |
Vodafone offers '5G Ultra' to users of very specific phones in very specific locations
'It will likely be unnoticeable for many consumers' says analyst
Networks26 Jun 2023 | 19
Ex-FBI employee jailed for taking classified material home
Infosec in brief Also: a PII harvest at Dole's server farm, military members mailed mystery smartwatches, and this week's critical vulns
CSO26 Jun 2023 | 55
Generative AI and automation: accelerating the datacenter of the future
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