The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring
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Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane'
To preserve Earth's treasures, digital silence is golden
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There are beautiful, undisturbed places in the world. You do not have to catch 'em all
Want to know the future of FOSS? You can look it up in a database
Opinion
If you make it here, you can make it anywhere
Academic publishers turn to AI software to catch bad scientists doctoring data
Analysis
High level of image duplication in a single paper is a sign of cheating
Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter
Analysis Competition is good for everyone. Just keep it friendly, folks
Systems17 Sep 2022 | 28
Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it
About time someone shined some light onto this
Research17 Sep 2022 | 36
America taps 150+ prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime
As President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations
Personal Tech17 Sep 2022 | 5
Appeals court already under fire for upholding Texas no-content-moderation law
Big Tech forbidden from taking down 'viewpoint-based' posts no matter how awful but lawful
Personal Tech16 Sep 2022 | 55
School chat app Seesaw abused to send 'inappropriate image' to parents, teachers
This is why we don't reuse passwords, kids
Cyber-crime16 Sep 2022 | 10
Stand back, the FTC is here to police gig work
If only the US government had, like, a Dept of Labor or something
Personal Tech16 Sep 2022 | 8
Heart now pledges 30-seat hybrid electric commercial flights by 2028
We've heard something like this before ... Boss suggests earlier design wasn't that useful to industry
Bootnotes16 Sep 2022 | 41
White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects
Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters
Science16 Sep 2022 | 25
UBER FAILS
Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems, databases compromised
Updated AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more
Ex-Uber security chief accused of hushing database breach must face fraud charges
Company execs and their lawyers are paying close attention to this one
Leaked Uber docs reveal frequent use of 'kill switch' to deactivate tech, thwart investigators
Staff told to tell cops that the IT team was in San Francisco, asleep, and couldn't restore systems
Uber to pay millions to settle claims it ripped off disabled people with unfair fees
Effectively charging folks in wheelchairs for taking too long to get into ride? Not a great look
Driver in Uber's self-driving car death goes on trial, says she feels 'betrayed'
App giant avoids any potential criminal liability
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Don't say Pentium or Celeron anymore, it's just Processor now, says Intel
Logowatch Totally not confusing
Personal Tech16 Sep 2022 | 67
Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel
Open Source Summit After 31 years, a second programming language will be allowed in
OSes16 Sep 2022 | 40
Researchers build ML models to forecast food shortages
Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid
AI + ML16 Sep 2022 | 2
Actual real-life hoverbike makes US debut at Detroit Auto Show
'I feel like I'm literally 15 years old and I just got out of Star Wars and jumped on their bike,' says test driver
Offbeat16 Sep 2022 | 51
Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery
All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory
Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2
Was there life on Mars? Perseverance scrapes up promising samples
Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important'
Science16 Sep 2022 | 10
UK govt refuses to give up on scoring Arm dual-listing for London
Can UK Prime Minister Liz Truss do for tech what she did for cheese and pork markets?
Systems16 Sep 2022 | 26
Open standards body for digital wallets announced
Open Source Summit No, not the dodgy cryptocurrency kind
Off-Prem16 Sep 2022 | 3
Former Reg vulture takes on Nominet – by running for board seat
After extensive coverage of .uk missteps, Kieren McCarthy now vows to fix registry from the inside
Networks16 Sep 2022 | 22
Building the barricades against identity-based attacks
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The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring
Column Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane'
Software16 Sep 2022 | 45
Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic
On Call In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter
Storage16 Sep 2022 | 111
US bans some foreign investments in chips, AI, quantum computing
Not aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China
Systems16 Sep 2022 | 8
Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk
Video Expert tells El Reg: 'It was unusual, a geometrical curiosity'
Science16 Sep 2022 | 32
Microsoft emits .NET 7 early release licensed for production, new Visual Studio preview
Adobe set to acquire Figma collaborative design tool, developers fret about future
Meta releases MemLab JavaScript memory leak detector as open source
Safari 16 arrives with support for password replacement passkeys
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Eastern European org hit by second record-smashing DDoS attack
Cough, cough, U, cough, kraine
Security16 Sep 2022 | 4
EU puts smart device manufacturers on the hook for cyber security
Requires five years of patching, 24 hour incident reporting, and proper security … for starters
Systems16 Sep 2022 | 58
China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns
Wants swarms of small satellites that are harder to destroy – and outsourcing to improve cybersecurity
Security16 Sep 2022 | 21
US border cops harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database
Texts, contacts, call logs, photos, and more centrally stored for years without a warrant in sight
Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 52
California Governor signs child privacy law requiring online age checks
Get ready for face scans, expanded surveillance, violated rights, and more, say critics
Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 55
Merge shifts Ethereum to full proof-of-stake, price slumps
Power consumption plummets, too, so there's that
Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 38
Upstart claims its chips beat Nvidia's A100 on AI oomph
That's nice, but what about Nv's H100?
AI + ML15 Sep 2022 | 2
We should give Taiwan $4.5b to protect chip fabs from China, say US senators
Gotta keep those phone processors and GPUs coming, folks
Systems15 Sep 2022 | 15
Biden administration to dole out $900m for electric vehicle infrastructure
34 states and Puerto Rico sharing pot to fund chargers along interstate highways
Science15 Sep 2022 | 21
Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard
'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges'
Software15 Sep 2022 | 6
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China discovers unknown mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y)
Helium-3 also draws excitement as future fusion energy source
Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked
Updated AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more
The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring
Column Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane'
Software fees to make up 10% of John Deere's revenues by 2030
1.5 million machines and half a billion acres of land connected to the John Deere Operations Center within a matter of years
Retbleed slugs VM performance by up to 70 percent in kernel 5.19
VMware ran tests and saw some nasty numbers. Performance of next kernel otherwise uncontroversial
Chemical plant taken offline by the best one of all: C8H10N4O2
Who, Me? Who doesn't like a cup of coffee? Anything electrical, that's who
Linux kernel's eBPF feature put to unexpected new uses
Linux Plumbers Conference The internal traffic-filtering tool can be used for much more than firewalls
Demand for software experts pushes tech salaries higher in UK
One in six ditching job offer from employers low-balling on pay
Apple patches iPhone and macOS flaws under active attack
High-value targets tend to get hit
Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic
On Call In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter
STORIES
Testing of Starlink internet under way in Antarctica
Bandwidth-starved researchers rejoice
Networks15 Sep 2022 | 10
Ex-Broadcom engineer asks for house arrest over IP theft
Admits guilt, but claims he took files to jog his memory, afraid he'd not keep up with 'younger engineers'
Cyber-crime15 Sep 2022 | 20
Microsoft Outlook sends users back to 1930 with (very) mini-Millennium-Bug glitch
Planes unlikely to fall out of sky after December 31, 2029, El Reg can confirm
Offbeat15 Sep 2022 | 75
Former Cisco boss launches upstart to rattle old employer's cage
John Chambers' Nile wants to remove humans from network management
Networks15 Sep 2022 | 15
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Samsung investing $5b in efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050
That's quite the challenge to neutralize – making chips and electronics is hardly ecofriendly
Systems15 Sep 2022 | 5
Iran steps up its cybercrime game and Uncle Sam punches back
Criminal charges, more sanctions, and a $10m bounty, oh my
Cyber-crime15 Sep 2022 | 13
Microsoft rolls out stealthy updates for 365 Apps
Good thing Redmond has a brilliant track record with patches
Applications15 Sep 2022 | 48
Former Newport Wafer Fab owner linked to buyback from China's Nexperia
If you think customers were impatient before, this report won't soothe their worries
Systems15 Sep 2022 | 11
SAP user group questions value for money amid plans to increase support fees
Unbundling of products, cloud shift, support for older ERP products make customers query inflation-based rise
NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time
Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed
Boffins spot baby planet forming around young star – and that's rather cool
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SWIFT to trial blockchain – but not for its core payment service
Hopes to streamline market data movements, but as 11,000 institutions use SWIFT this is a bit of a moment
Software15 Sep 2022 | 24
Arrest warrant issued for Do Kwon – the man blamed for 'crypto winter'
Terraform Labs CEO was boss of the TerraUSD and Luna crypto crash. South Korea wants him in cuffs
Legal15 Sep 2022 | 32
Philippines Space Agency warns flyers, fishing boats to avoid falling Chinese rockets
The red rocket menace is real: Beijing's already sprayed the region this year
Science15 Sep 2022 | 3
Chinese court OKs trading crypto, if it's considered a virtual asset
This may not be in the spirit of Beijing's many bans on blockheads
Software15 Sep 2022 |
WordPress-powered sites backdoored after FishPig suffers supply chain attack
And two other security snafus in this web publishing world
Patches15 Sep 2022 | 18
Amazon allegedly punishes sellers who dare offer lower prices on other marketplaces
Super Cali goes ballistic, says it's all atrocious
Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 54
Anti-Metaverse package 'explosion' at college VR lab probed by investigators
Blast, manifesto railing against Zuck and AI may be an artifical reality
Bootnotes14 Sep 2022 | 21
How to get inside the mind of hackers
Spanish speaking SANS experts can help the LATAM cyber community detect and respond to attacks
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White House to tech world: Promise you'll write secure code – or Feds won't use it
Developers, why not simply build flawless software, thus solving all our vulnerability worries
Security14 Sep 2022 | 35
Nvidia buys Arm ... Neoverse V2 CPU cores for Grace chip
GPU giant still thinks Softbank-owned designs are worth the RISC
Systems14 Sep 2022 | 1
Nearly one in two industry pros scaled back open source use over security fears
Log4j being the main driver, this data science poll claims
CSO14 Sep 2022 | 17
Twilio more than decimates staff, CEO says it grew too fast
As Patreon ditches nearly a fifth of its workforce
Software14 Sep 2022 | 17
Remember when Microsoft was going to put Azure in space? It's still trying
'Cloud connectivity' hits different this time
Networks14 Sep 2022 | 4
Sun's magnetic mystery solved by ESA NASA Solar Orbiter
Understanding solar switchbacks is key to understanding solar winds, and scientists think they've got it
Science14 Sep 2022 | 3
Fedora 37 beta: Hints of what's to come in Red Hat's free flagship
Text Editor replaces GEdit for starters, though it's still very early days
OSes14 Sep 2022 | 18
NASA reshuffles dates for Artemis I launch attempt
Could it be third time lucky? The odds are not in space agency's favor
Science14 Sep 2022 | 12
Climate change prevention plans 'way off track', says UN
To stay under threshold of 1.5°C of warming, the world needs to work seven times harder, says the UN's WMO
Science14 Sep 2022 | 81
Google fined $4b after Euro court snips 5% off earlier price
Search giant’s appeal lands flat as fine imposed for anticompetitive practice in Android search
Legal14 Sep 2022 | 16
US, Mexico to align chip and lithium supply chains to amp EV production
Trump wanted a wall, Biden wants batteries
Systems14 Sep 2022 | 4
When DevOps and cyber security collide
How can the IT industry stop the CVE rot and get software bug numbers down?
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