To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess
On-Call
We'd say this was a clear case of RTFM but this rig was so simple it didn't have a manual
Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3 million patients' info
Scream with us: Aaaaaa-AAH
Team Interpol: Metaverse Police
Attempted revival of virtual reality is only just beginning and already the cops just want to take a look around
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water
Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf
Biden wants SpaceX to beam internet to Iran amid uprising
Er, did Joe forget who runs Starlink?
Networks21 Oct 2022 |
TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move
China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 |
Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI
Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019
AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 1
Boffins shatter data transmission speed record
One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet
Science21 Oct 2022 | 9
OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released with Apple M2 support
Plus better support for some newer Intel wireless and graphics chipsets
OSes21 Oct 2022 | 4
Why are PC webcams crap? Lenovo says it knows the reason
Can expensive tech save this reporter's ugly mug? Not likely
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 25
Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare
Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database
PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 19
Elon Musk reportedly wants to gut Twitter workforce by 75%
Twitter tells staff it knows of no plans, though. Plus: billionaire's ventures could take heat from Committee on Foreign Investment
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 61
New measurement alert: Liz Truss inspires new Register standard
Reg Standards Bureau We didn't have a time unit. That... is... a... disgrace
Bootnotes21 Oct 2022 | 66
IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees
Former staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme
Systems21 Oct 2022 | 10
Good news, URSNIF no longer a banking trojan. Bad news, it's now a backdoor
And one designed to slip ransomware and data-stealing code onto infected machines
Research21 Oct 2022 | 1
Walking on water with VAST and Dremio
Moving from Hadoop to open data lakehouse on all-flash storage solutions
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Mask gizmo wirelessly transmits data on wearer's health
Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit
Science21 Oct 2022 | 13
Bias toward office staff will cost you: Your WFH crew could walk, say execs
Canalys Channels Forum Productivity KPIs need a 21st century makeover, say tech bosses
Personal Tech21 Oct 2022 | 31
To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess
On-Call We'd say this was a clear case of RTFM but this rig was so simple it didn't have a manual
On-Prem21 Oct 2022 | 145
CYBERSECURITY MONTH
Infosec still (mostly) a boys club
Feature Women who do join get paid and promoted less, leave faster. What can be done to stop that?
Verizon prepaid accounts hijacked by SIM swap crooks
Nightmare for those with one-time security codes texted to their phones
BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be 'one of the largest' in years
SOCRadar says sensitive info from 150,000 orgs was exposed, Redmond disputes findings
Ex-WSJ reporter says he was framed in elaborate 'hack-and-smear' operation
Wild story of a multinational law firm, cyber-mercenaries, a sheikh, and more
'Fully undetectable' Windows backdoor gets detected
SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software
How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm
Highlight AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one
Infosys reverses opposition to staff taking side gigs
Moonlighting is now now OK – if you do it the Infosys way, says CEO Salil Parekh
Legal21 Oct 2022 | 5
We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A planet, dense as a marshmallow, that would float on water
Weird puffy gas giant circles red dwarf
Science21 Oct 2022 | 18
Team Interpol: Metaverse Police
Attempted revival of virtual reality is only just beginning and already the cops just want to take a look around
Bootnotes21 Oct 2022 | 13
Docker quietly raises prices, limits Team accounts in favor of pricey Business subscriptions
GitHub fixes over-broad token permissions with fine-grained personal access tokens… and controversial enforced expiration
‘Project Wisdom’ for Red Hat Ansible: AI to generate YAML playbooks from natural language
GitHub Copilot under fire as dev claims it emits ‘large chunks of my copyrighted code’
Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time
First Look Works well, but selection of available apps is meagre
Virtualization21 Oct 2022 | 20
India fines Google $162 million for abusing Android monopoly
That's a whole six hours of revenue, but requirements to open the Android ecosystem will hit harder
OSes21 Oct 2022 | 1
Economic cold war looms as Chinese chipmakers feel sting of US trade restrictions
Analysis The question is: how severe will the Middle Kindgom's response be?
On-Prem21 Oct 2022 | 5
Cloud migration and the cyber skills shortage
Protecting applications off prem demands a fresh wave of security talent
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Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3 million patients' info
Scream with us: Aaaaaa-AAH
Amazon hit with $1bn claim that secretive Buy Box algorithm screws shoppers
Internet mega-souk thinks allegations are a waste of Prime
Texas sues Google over alleged nonconsensual harvesting of biometric data
You can kiss my Californian ass, says ad giant
Confidentiality in the cloud: the delicate bargain of trust
How hardware-assisted data security can boost the integrity of sensitive data sets stored in cloud environments
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California wildfires hit CTRL+Z on 18 years of CO2e removal
Time to start considering forest blazes alongside industrial sources of greenhouse gases, say scientists
Science20 Oct 2022 | 26
DisplayPort standards bods school USB standards bods with latest revision
Video Electronics Standards Association shows the USB Implementers Forum how it's done
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 35
UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure
Five-year blueprint to modernize tech estate, but cloud still not for everyone in finance sector
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 9
Musk grumbles about 'overpaying' for Twitter but says he's excited
Tick tick tick ... just 8 days to go
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 33
Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey
NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water'
Science20 Oct 2022 | 11
Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce
What connects a decaying salad vegetable with something called 'the 1922 Committee'? Enter the wonderful and frightening world of British politics
Bootnotes20 Oct 2022 | 349
The infinite beauty of the hive mind
Looking at the future of crowdsourced security
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Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal'
Why does it always rain on renters, asks CTO?
Networks20 Oct 2022 | 21
Ubuntu 22.10 is out, with an extra remix in the family: Unity
Linux wunderkind's project now an official flavor as 'Kinetic Kudu' brings nine months of updates
OSes20 Oct 2022 | 10
How did ESA's gamma ray-spotting 'scope make it to 20? They totally overdid it
We speak to the boffins behind the mission about hits, misses, engineering, and that extraordinary near death scrape
Science20 Oct 2022 | 5
Hardware makers criticized for eco double standards
CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Don't penalize resellers for selling refurbished kit, educate shareholders on being Earth's friend
Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 6
President Biden still wants his cybersecurity labels on those smart devices
May follow Finland and Germany in adopting Singapore's standard
Security20 Oct 2022 | 17
Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year
CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 34
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education
Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals
AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 20
NASA OKs spacewalks, upgrades helmets after fishbowl mishap
Changes follow astronaut's headgear filling with water during seven-hour star trek
Science20 Oct 2022 | 18
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Hardening data security in the cloud
How Intel’s SGX hardware helps safeguard applications in multi-tenant environments
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Can IAM help save on cyber insurance?
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AWS Snowball edge compute capacity snowballs beyond 100 vCPUs, 400GB of memory
There's a fat AMD Rome under the hood and 28TB of storage too
On-Prem20 Oct 2022 |
Hong Kong hopes to trawl the world for tech talent to build IT city
Wanted: AI experts, data scientists, fintech folk, willing to work in the shadow of repressive regime
On-Prem20 Oct 2022 | 32
SolarWinds and Dynatrace directors resign over antitrust concerns
DoJ cracks down on competing companies that share board members
Software20 Oct 2022 | 3
Health insurer's infosec incident diagnosis goes from 'take a chill pill' to emergency ward
Updated Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers
Cyber-crime20 Oct 2022 | 11
CISA warns of security holes in industrial Advantech, Hitachi kit
When we concede that everything has bugs, we wish it wasn't quite everything
Cost of a health insurance security breach? NY watchdogs say it's $4.5m
Hundreds of thousands of people's sensitive info poorly protected
IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week
Exclusive And would you believe it, employees are not thrilled
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Mars rover Curiosity reaches sulfate-rich Mount Sharp after 10-year journey
NASA had been aiming for the region since before landing because there are 'signs of past water'
BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be 'one of the largest' in years
SOCRadar says sensitive info from 150,000 orgs was exposed, Redmond disputes findings
Intel sued over historic DEC chip site's future
Exclusive Everyone cool with us plonking down a massive warehouse here? No? Oh well
IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week
Exclusive And would you believe it, employees are not thrilled
Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce
What connects a decaying salad vegetable with something called 'the 1922 Committee'? Enter the wonderful and frightening world of British politics
To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess
On-Call We'd say this was a clear case of RTFM but this rig was so simple it didn't have a manual
Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year
CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation
Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal'
Why does it always rain on renters, asks CTO?
President Biden still wants his cybersecurity labels on those smart devices
May follow Finland and Germany in adopting Singapore's standard
Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time
First Look Works well, but selection of available apps is meagre
STORIES
Intel sued over historic DEC chip site's future
Exclusive Everyone cool with us plonking down a massive warehouse here? No? Oh well
On-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 21
Amid losses, Uber driven to become advertising network
Don't want to see ads during your trip? Sorry, no app for that
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 21
DuckDuckGo's macOS browser hits public beta
Remember, remember, the Microsoft trackers
Personal Tech19 Oct 2022 | 4
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The only Windows 10 updates for the year are coming. Spoiler alert: It's just security
What did you expect, HoloLens-ready Minesweeper and new skins for Calculator?
Google submits Go apps container project to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Did we say donate? We meant submit. Megacorp swiftly KOs former blog title
Founder of zero-emissions truck venture Nikola found guilty of $1b fraud
Verdict in for trial where promo vid showed gravity rather than batteries or fuel cells keeping electric truck moving
SpaceX's in-flight Wi-Fi, Starlink Aviation, takes to the skies
Oh c'mon! Was it too much to expect Skynet?
Millennials, Gen Z actually suck at workplace security
OK, boomer – how do I turn off cookies?
Next-gen Thunderbolt capable of 120Gbps for 8K displays
Oh snap. It's not going to work with existing passive cables if they're longer than a meter
Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps
Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first
PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7
So, the US, China, and Russia walk into an infosec conference
Suffice to say things got a little awkward
CSO19 Oct 2022 | 3
Gartner thinks enterprise IT will be immune to recession
Tech dept still wearing halo from saving companies in lockdown... plus cloud committers 'can't cut that spending'
PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 12
Build some flexibility into your cyber learning
Training should bend around the many moving parts in your daily schedule, not the other way around.
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