Tails 5.11: Secure-surfing 'amnesiac' live distro arrives A highly opinionated little live USB/DVD/VM image for the paranoid
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' about ChatGPT leaking conversations Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened
Critical infrastructure gear is full of flaws, but hey, at least it's certified Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed
Barred from US tech, Huawei claims to have built its own 14nm chip design suite Beijing's Made in China drive fueled by Washington's export crackdowns Software24 Mar 2023 |
CISA unleashes Untitled Goose Tool to honk at danger in Microsoft's cloud Not a headline we expected to write today CSO24 Mar 2023 | 1
Oracle reportedly making job cuts at health IT arm Cerner OCI is much more efficient than the acquired Cerner DCs, Ellison told investors Spotlight on Databases24 Mar 2023 |
Matthew Brown Companies confirms it's in funding talks with Virgin Orbit Back to work on Monday? Branson and co still fighting to get funding Offbeat24 Mar 2023 | 2
Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count Numerical abilities could be a hardwired, ancient feature of the developing vertebrate brain, study suggests Science24 Mar 2023 | 9
GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update Getting connection failures? Don't panic. Get new keys Security24 Mar 2023 | 14
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block 2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 24
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI Opinion Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot Software24 Mar 2023 | 17
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days Episode 6 Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ... BOFH24 Mar 2023 | 32
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem On Call Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs Software24 Mar 2023 | 89
There's one sure winner in the AI explosion, say analysts: Dutch outfit ASML It’s the only game in town for extreme ultraviolet lithography, and that makes it every chip shop’s new best friend AI + ML24 Mar 2023 | 10
French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics Liberté, égalité, reconnaissance faciale for all Security24 Mar 2023 | 21
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365 Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 18
Where in the world is Terraform Labs villain Do Kwon? Montenegro, actually Probably in a jail cell, waiting to be extradited stateside Legal24 Mar 2023 | 7
Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad Networks24 Mar 2023 | 2
Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances' Legal24 Mar 2023 | 2
Uncle Sam reveals it sent cyber-soldiers to Albania to hunt for Iranian threats 'Hunt forward' teams of this sort aid with defense and learn how attackers like Tehran operate Security24 Mar 2023 | 6
Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket, lifts off ... and fails to reach orbit Mission named 'Good Luck Have Fun' needed more of both Science23 Mar 2023 | 4
Critical infrastructure gear is full of flaws, but hey, at least it's certified Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed CSO23 Mar 2023 | 13
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened
Microsoft freaks out users with Windows 11 warning: 'LSA protection is off' Alerts telling folks their 'device may be vulnerable' triggered by KB5007651
South Korea fines McDonald's for data leak from raw SMB share British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec
GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update Getting connection failures? Don't panic. Get new keys
Cisco kindly reveals proof of concept attacks for flaws in rival Netgear's kit Maybe this is deserved given the problem's in a hidden telnet service
First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship
B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365 Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize
Intel bumps up core counts for 13th-gen vPro chips 'We don't think it's a luxury' veep tells The Reg On-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 6
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' about ChatGPT leaking conversations Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 9
Red Hat veteran will head up SUSE from May as Di Donato steps down In the meantime, the CFO is also interim CEO Software23 Mar 2023 | 4
D-Wave hello to another quantum pioneer warned over possible delisting Share price slides below $1 for 30 days straight, but company vows it will comply with NYSE regs again HPC23 Mar 2023 | 2
SAP user group: We want the same features on-prem that you put in the cloud News Concerns over multi-million investments customers already made in their on-prem ERP systems
Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade
Ellison's healthcare obsession carries risks for Oracle Analysis But if he swings it, the company can secure long term growth
The nodes have it in the Great DB debate: Reg readers pick graph Register Debate Industry upstart preferred... for now
Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live News Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike
Tails 5.11: Secure-surfing 'amnesiac' live distro arrives A highly opinionated little live USB/DVD/VM image for the paranoid OSes23 Mar 2023 | 10
Turing Award goes to Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet A cool $1 million to a man who is not afraid to eat his own words, nor roll out his own cable Networks23 Mar 2023 | 33
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 16
First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship Science23 Mar 2023 | 31
Croquet for Unity: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming... but it's so much more Updated This is that rare announcement that's far more significant than it sounds Software23 Mar 2023 | 14
Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash Terminal maker General Bytes shutters its cloud business after second breach in seven months Security23 Mar 2023 | 29
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing Analysis Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together News Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too
Nvidia’s four workhorses of the AI inference revolution In-depth GPU giant is sort of doing what we expected. But not quite
Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography News What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next
Bogus ChatGPT extension steals Facebook cookies All aboard the chatbot hype train! Next stop: Fraud Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 8
B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 38
Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit Now all it has to do is land Science23 Mar 2023 | 13
India gives itself a mission to lead the 'Global South' into 6G era Builds its own seat at the standards development table Off-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 5
South Korea fines McDonald's for data leak from raw SMB share British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec
We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in Register Kettle We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype
Turning green with professional-grade PCs Climate change negatively impacts our society, leaving businesses to find new ways to optimize business operations to reduce CO2 emissions
Developers - Make life easier by grabbing more of the data life cycle How MongoDB provides capabilities which help you do more with less
Feeding the smartphone frenzy? It’s a matter of time and space Micron’s novel 1-beta node can connect your smartphone and the enterprise
Cisco kindly reveals proof of concept attacks for flaws in rival Netgear's kit Maybe this is deserved given the problem's in a hidden telnet service
Microsoft freaks out users with Windows 11 warning: 'LSA protection is off' Alerts telling folks their 'device may be vulnerable' triggered by KB5007651
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 18
Aerospike targets Java Spring devs with support for the popular framework Database shortcuts built in popular environment in hopes of scoring devs who want an easy life Spotlight on Databases22 Mar 2023 |
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan Science22 Mar 2023 | 13
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 103
Watchdog: Broadcom buy of VMware may be bad for competition Server price hikes, rival hardware makers locked out ... haven't we been warning that for a while? Virtualization22 Mar 2023 | 9
IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs You'd think there'd be more techies on the market, but many cuts were in business areas On-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 60
GitHub Copilot learns new tricks, adopts this year's model Armed with GPT-4, Microsoft's AI 'pair programmer' can tag pull requests, parrot documentation, talk about code AI + ML22 Mar 2023 | 12
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...
Boffins develop AI model for designing proteins to make synthetic blood plasma And it's not the only hybrid synthetic biomaterial scientists are targeting
German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook Country's super strong data rights under magnifying glass after half a dozen complaints filed
SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share Off-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 29
Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 44
Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man Digital rights org criticizes use of fill-in-the-blank template used to quell separatist protests Legal22 Mar 2023 | 12
HPC in the cloud for FEA How AWS’ infrastructure powers the most demanding computer simulations Hot Seat Interview