Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery
It's simple, unreliable, insecure, and on its way out
British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles
Standards that cut across technology could help avoid confusing industry, MPs hear
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Opinion
Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking
Thanks to generative AI, catching fraud science is going to be this much harder
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Why do experiments and all that work when a model could just invent convincing data for you?
Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten
Special report RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign
Networks14 Mar 2023 |
After nearly two decades of waiting, GNOME 44 brings you... image thumbnails
The primary desktop in Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 is getting there
OSes14 Mar 2023 | 4
Qualcomm tries to kick holes in logic behind €242M fine
Hopes to avoid paying up for crushing a rival while helping Huawei and ZTE to prosper
Networks14 Mar 2023 | 1
SAP's in-and-out burger Qualtrics sold to Silver Lake and Canadian pension funds
Someone's still got some cash jangling about after the Silicon Valley Bank mess
Software14 Mar 2023 |
UK refreshes national security plan to stop more of China's secret-stealing cyber-tricks
A threat that needs two orgs to tackle it: the 'Integrated Security Fund' and the 'National Protective Security Agency'
CSO14 Mar 2023 | 7
Flirting hard with India doesn't mean US is breaking up with China
Commerce secretary says relationship with China is 'benign' and wants to be open to new possibilities
Legal14 Mar 2023 | 5
Japan Post closer to replacing snail mail with autonomous drones
As Alphabet's Wing wants to fly millions of small packages by 2024
AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 6
Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts
'We're looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus' – which increasingly means staving off TikTok
Software14 Mar 2023 | 8
NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon
Aims to look at the universe's dark ages without interference from Earth
Science14 Mar 2023 | 22
LockBit brags: We'll leak thousands of SpaceX blueprints stolen from supplier
And also, Ring hit with ransomware, too? No, says Amazon
Cyber-crime13 Mar 2023 | 6
Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live
Comment The man leaking vital data before it was fashionable
Bootnotes13 Mar 2023 | 4
FUNNY MONEY
Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm bought by HSBC for 1 British pound in rescue deal
LATEST $2.9 trillion-asset globo corp's local subsidiary buys Silicon Roundabout fave
US government says Silicon Valley Bank depositors can get their cash on Monday
LATEST Feds say this won’t cost taxpayers a dime
Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why
EARLIER 2023, just like 2008
Two tech-centric banks strike trouble, spooking markets
EARLIER Silicon Valley Bank sold billions in bonds as startups struggle, crypto-centric Silvergate Bank just gave up
Top tip: If you want more of that VC money, stick some AI in your chips
MEANWHILE Helps if you're teetering on the edge
Zoll Medical says intruders had 1M+ patient, staff records at their fingertips
Names, addresses, SSNs all up for grabs
Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in
10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash
ReRAM redo: UCL spinout scores £7M to push Resistive RAM
Remember the storage class memory that never took off? It's back
Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery
It's simple, unreliable, insecure, and on its way out
OSes13 Mar 2023 | 30
'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay not fit for purpose, alleges complaint
Human lawyers: 'DoNotPay is not actually a robot, a lawyer, nor a law firm'
AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 10
UK datacenter biz Ark goes on date with private equity suitors
Government supplier said to be valued at $2.5B
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 |
Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract
We don't need to trap customers to force loyalty, says boss
Networks13 Mar 2023 | 32
Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?
Comment Moon is real. Pictures of Moon are real. Phone uses lots of pictures of Moon to make your picture less crap
Offbeat13 Mar 2023 | 73
CISA joins forces with Women in CyberSecurity to break up the boy's club
in brief Also, the FBI just admitted to bypassing warrants by buying cellphone location data, and this week's actionable items
Security13 Mar 2023 | 13
British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles
Standards that cut across technology could help avoid confusing industry, MPs hear
AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 35
Engineers are supposed to solve difficult problems. Waiting in a queue for time on the supercomputer shouldn’t be one of them
How Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances, powered by 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, are optimized for complex FEA workloads
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Tainted PHP code? JetBrains Qodana has a new detection feature
GitHub-extender ZenHub may add GitLab support, claiming platforms are ‘unapproachable’ for non-technical types
AWS releases Application Composer to make serverless ‘easier’ but initial scope is limited
Fly.io CEO says reliability “not great” as platform suffers scaling issues
SPOTLIGHT ON DATABASES
The nodes have it in the Great DB debate: Reg readers pick graph
Register Debate: The result Industry upstart preferred... for now
SQL extensions won't solve the graph problem
Register Debate Even ISO committee thinks graphs are different enough to warrant a full query language
Abandoning the relational model is reinventing the wheel
Register Debate Let's talk about what well-architected looks like
Relational can't do everything
Register Debate DBs aren't just about theory – they are complex systems designed to perform demanding tasks
Graph – revolutionary concept in databases or niche curiosity?
Register Debate Two experts go head-to-head – then you decide
Cutting complexity
Ensuring cybersecurity defences do more with less
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The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Opinion Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking
Security13 Mar 2023 | 192
UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement
Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 2
Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months
Who, me? A missed migration mitigated the mistake
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 74
India floats idea of dedicated tribunal to handle online offences
Consultation for the long-awaited Digital India Act is finally under way although the draft law's still not been revealed
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 2
Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.'
Some training in refreshed certification platform to be free, including short how-to vids
Networks13 Mar 2023 | 5
Silicon supply chain players plot exodus from China in wake of ASML's exit
Vietnam, Malyasia, and Singapore roll out the welcome mat
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 21
Staying in the fast lane
Ensuring latency doesn’t slow your cache
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FOR FOSS' SAKE
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux laptop
Hands On Is Lenovo's fastest, thinnest, lightest flagship good at this sort of thing?
Make Linux safer… or die trying
Series The OS family isn't broken – so why are so many companies trying to fix it?
Who writes Linux and open source software?
Opinion Developers and, more to the point, the companies that employ them
systemd 253: You're looking at the future of enterprise Linux boot processes
The init system many love to hate intros tool to create Unified Kernel Image files
Fancy a quick tour of DragonFly BSD 6.4?
We buzz around new version of the other-other-other FOSS-xNix-that-isn't-Linux
China launches yet another crackdown on social media
'I am the Chinese Communist Party. I will be with you forever' - Beijing's new propaganda vid says the quiet part out loud
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 17
GPT-4 to launch this week, Microsoft Germany's CTO lets slip
In-brief Plus: DuckDuckGo launches its own AI web search chatbot, and more
AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 10
Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud
‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’
Off-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 27
Infosys president leaves to join rival Tech Mahindra as CEO
Asia In Brief PLUS: Singapore tests AWS quantum network; Honda bulks autonomous truck; India tightens crypto laws; and more
Software12 Mar 2023 | 1
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Securing ways to share workplace passwords
Keeper protects your team’s credentials without slowing down business
Indosat network integration ahead of schedule after successful merger
CEO Vikram Sinha heads to MWC to detail progress at one of Indonesia’s biggest telcos
The quest for secure telco networks
How ZTE’s cybersecurity assurance is designed to address regulatory complexities and minimize risks
Cloud infrastructure spreads its wings
How Huawei KooVerse brings low latency IaaS to customers everywhere
Cop a load of this DIY e-ink calendar to help plan those projects you'll never finish
Or how you'll spend your copious free time running CP/M on a cheap computer
Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works
Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit
Here's how Microsoft hopes to inject ChatGPT into all your apps and bots via Azure
Stormy clouds ahead?
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Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud
‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’
Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months
Who, me? A missed migration mitigated the mistake
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Opinion Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking
LockBit brags: We'll leak thousands of SpaceX blueprints stolen from supplier
And also, Ring hit with ransomware, too? No, says Amazon
GPT-4 to launch this week, Microsoft Germany's CTO lets slip
In-brief Plus: DuckDuckGo launches its own AI web search chatbot, and more
British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles
Standards that cut across technology could help avoid confusing industry, MPs hear
Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares?
Comment Moon is real. Pictures of Moon are real. Phone uses lots of pictures of Moon to make your picture less crap
Rivian wants out of Amazon electric van lock-in
10k delivery vehicles this year isn't going to cut it and upstart really needs the cash
Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery
It's simple, unreliable, insecure, and on its way out
Rebel without a clause: ISP promises broadband with no contract
We don't need to trap customers to force loyalty, says boss
STORIES
US plays Whac-A-Mole with Inspur subsidiaries to close China sanction loopholes
If your name's not on the entity list ... you're OK to do business with American companies
On-Prem11 Mar 2023 | 8
Google euthanizes Chrome Cleanup Tool because it no longer has a purpose
Times have changed and unwanted software on Windows is a rarity (unless you count Windows itself)
Security11 Mar 2023 | 4
Welcome to Muskville: Where the workers never leave
Comment Your boss owns you AND your home – is this Texas utopia?
Offbeat10 Mar 2023 | 92
Top 3 questions to consider when choosing a streaming platform based on your budget
Key tips for choosing the right streaming platform for your needs
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SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY WEEK
Snap CISO: I rate software supply chain risk 9.9 out of 10
Interview 'Understanding your inventory is absolutely No. 1' he tells The Reg
SBOM is a 'massive galaxy of mess' for supply chain security
Interview Talos team warns on third-party threats, but will it work? Betteridge's Law may apply
Feeling VEXed by software supply chain security? You’re not alone
Interview Chainguard CEO explains how to secure code given crims know to poison it at the source
Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger'
Interview Industry hasn't 'improved much at all' Mandiant's Eric Scales tells us
SBOMs should be a security staple in the software supply chain
Backgrounder Know the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake...
Rambus takes charge of Arm’s CryptoCell, CryptoIsland IP
Updated Building a watertight SoC? You'll have to go through IP-slinger now
What happens if you 'cover up' a ransomware infection? For Blackbaud, a $3m charge
File under cost of doing business
Is this the year 100GE NICs go mainstream? If you're into AI, it might be
Gotta go fast!
Electronics market shows US-China decoupling will hike inflation and slow growth
Singapore's central bank has a gloomy vision of the future
Security10 Mar 2023 | 7
Netherlands joins US blockade of Chinese chip industry
No DUV for you
Systems10 Mar 2023 | 9
IBM boss Arvind 'kerching' Krishna paid more than $16m in 2022
That's equivalent to 271 Big Blue workers
Software10 Mar 2023 | 11
When plastering over a crack isn’t enough
How modernizing your PC estate helps optimize business
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