Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes
Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared Feature 'Lives will be lost' as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says We did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg, as Cisco also cuts staff as promised
FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks
Cybercrooks strut away with haute couture Harvey Nichols data Nothing high-end about the sparsely detailed, poorly publicized breach Cyber-crime20 Sep 2024 | 1
Green recycling goals? Pending EU directive could hammer used mobile market Bloc's USB-C rules forecast to disrupt supply, barring 8 million imported phones from reaching Europe's ports Personal Tech20 Sep 2024 | 12
Crack coder wasn't allowed to meet clients due to his other talent: blisteringly inappropriate insults On Call Then he stopped being a coding whiz, which is when the trouble started Software20 Sep 2024 | 24
A huge week for satnav as both China and Europe make generational launches Upgrades on the way for both, with deep-ocean services and programmable sats on the way Science20 Sep 2024 | 4
Citrix adds remote Mac support, but some customers are grumpy License changes and product bundles aren't going down well, says Gartner's DaaS magical quadrant Virtualization20 Sep 2024 | 1
Alibaba Cloud claims its modular datacenter architecture shrinks build times by 50 percent Also reveals boosted utilization rates, upgraded IaaS and more – all in the name of AI apps Off-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 2
CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret' Software20 Sep 2024 | 16
Valencia Ransomware explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 |
AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-prem Don't miss See? We do have competition, cloud giant tells regulator
No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals Personal Tech19 Sep 2024 | 11
Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 25
Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue Software19 Sep 2024 | 14
Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes Networks19 Sep 2024 | 59
1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable Security19 Sep 2024 | 6
Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,’ project chief laughs Software19 Sep 2024 | 85
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Microsoft unveils Office LTSC 2024 for users that remain stubbornly offline FYI What do you mean you don't want Copilot and Microsoft 365 services?
Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations Updated Better check your widgets, people Research19 Sep 2024 | 5
ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts Databases19 Sep 2024 | 2
Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 1
Pulumi releases security management product, touts benefits of IaC using general-purpose programming languages
Apple releases Swift 6 with improved concurrency, testing, cross-platform support – enough to lift it out of its niche?
RustConf speakers affirm Rust for Linux project despite challenges of unstable Rust, maintainer resignation
UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group 4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Security19 Sep 2024 | 9
Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it Interview Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding Software19 Sep 2024 | 22
SiFive expands from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 3
Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too Systems19 Sep 2024 | 7
Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor Cyber-crime19 Sep 2024 | 24
NTT Data, IBM team on mainframe cloud for banks SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue's LinuxONE Off-Prem19 Sep 2024 | 4
Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume Systems19 Sep 2024 | 2
LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in You'll have to opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others excepted AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 66
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Google dodges €1.5B EU ads antitrust fine after appeal win Qualcomm, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky Personal Tech18 Sep 2024 | 9
FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 18
Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 1
Putin really wants Trump back in the White House US govt, Microsoft report on Kremlin trolls' latest antics to Make America Grate Again Research18 Sep 2024 | 167
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says We did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg, as Cisco also cuts staff as promised Off-Prem18 Sep 2024 | 45
Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war Second wave of exploding gear kills at least 14 today Security18 Sep 2024 | 164
Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT Exclusive Getting sloppy, Xi CSO18 Sep 2024 | 29
California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one Newsom still worried about SB 1047's 'chilling effect' on AI industry tax dollar revenue innovation in the state AI + ML18 Sep 2024 | 16
Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot Surely at least one crew will get there in the next ten years? Science18 Sep 2024 | 1
Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure Tech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of 'em AI + ML18 Sep 2024 | 6
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Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops Cyber-crime18 Sep 2024 | 16
Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, going gray AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot's work Software18 Sep 2024 | 34
UK pensions department's project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes Public Sector18 Sep 2024 | 12
Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you've got there PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2024 | 4
Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared Feature 'Lives will be lost' as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units
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Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users Mac and Android loyals: you can look, but no calculation for now
New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet Something tells us Vlad and Xi probably won't bother reading it
China's tech giants buy into Indonesia - just like US tech giants did in India GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake
Australian Police conducted supply chain attack on criminal collaborationware Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service
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Open source orgs strengthen alliance against patent trolls The more successful FOSS gets, the more it becomes a target Software18 Sep 2024 | 9
WhatsApp still working on making View Once chats actually disappear for all Updated So far it's more like View Forever Patches18 Sep 2024 | 12
VMware patches remote make-me-root holes in vCenter Server, Cloud Foundation Bug reports made in China Virtualization17 Sep 2024 | 1
No major AI model is safe, but some do better than others Feature Anthropic Claude 3.5 shines in Chatterbox Labs safety test AI + ML17 Sep 2024 | 12
IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source says We did warn you, Big Blue tells The Reg, as Cisco also cuts staff as promised
Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,’ project chief laughs
Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, going gray AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot's work
Chinese spies spent months inside aerospace engineering firm's network via legacy IT Exclusive Getting sloppy, Xi
FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260,000-device botnet when confronted by Feds Plus: Wray tells how bureau helps certain victims negotiate with ransomware crooks
Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war Second wave of exploding gear kills at least 14 today
Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes
Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops
Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor
Putin really wants Trump back in the White House US govt, Microsoft report on Kremlin trolls' latest antics to Make America Grate Again
Google Cloud Document AI flaw (still) allows data theft despite bounty payout Updated Chocolate Factory downgrades risk, citing the need for attacker access Security17 Sep 2024 |
Hey kids, wanna clock the ISS? ESA's Astro Pi challenge runs your code in space Send astronauts nice pixel art, or try something a little harder Science17 Sep 2024 | 1
Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode Eight-year-old among those slain, Israel blamed, Iran's Lebanese ambassador wounded, it's said Security17 Sep 2024 | 183
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SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience Some good news for Elon – 2,500 planes to be Starlink Wi-Fi ready as United joins the party Public Sector17 Sep 2024 | 45
Rhysida ransomware gang ships off Port of Seattle data for $6M Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up Cyber-crime17 Sep 2024 | 2
IBM scores $45M zinger from Zynga in patent wringer Big Blue’s Prodigy from the 1980s comes back to haunt FarmVille giant Applications17 Sep 2024 | 11
Oracle brews Java 23 for just-in-time delivery Predictably paced programming language plods onward Software17 Sep 2024 | 4
Predator spyware kingpins added to US sanctions list Designations come as new infrastructure spins up in Africa Security17 Sep 2024 | 2
Prosecutors confirm probe into SAP CTO amid allegations of sexual harassment Jürgen Müller agreed to step down from his role at the end of September Databases17 Sep 2024 | 2
S&P 500's AI FOMO fizzles: Less than half mentioned it in Q2 earnings Is the hype over already? AI + ML17 Sep 2024 | 3
The end is in sight for Windows 10, but Microsoft keeps pushing out fixes Persistent SSO prompts after DMA update addressed in release preview OSes17 Sep 2024 | 33
On Call’s Greatest Hits, as voted for by you, the readers On Call The 20 most-commented-on tech support columns from On Call's first 500 instalments Offbeat17 Sep 2024 | 17
Using AI in your tech stack? Accuracy and reliability a worry for most Churns out apps, but testing needed to iron out performance woes Software17 Sep 2024 | 5
Objections to datacenter builds may be overruled now they are 'Critical National Infrastructure' Well you wouldn't get far protesting a water system or a power grid, right? On-Prem17 Sep 2024 | 34
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