BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus Episode Are you sure you don't want to rethink that, though, Boss?
Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970 On Call Cover-up saved the culprit after a battery of tests diagnosed the problem
Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units Updated Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces
Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either
Japan's Rohm, Toshiba grab $900M in subsidies to boost power semi production Silicon carbide production for EVs among key targets Systems10 Dec 2023 |
NASA pushes back timing of ISS deorbit vehicle contract Proposals now due in 2024 for a launch 5 years later Science10 Dec 2023 | 3
Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky Microsoft spots surge in pro-Russia exploits of video platform to spread propaganda Security09 Dec 2023 | 17
To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled? Kettle Register journos brew up on the future of hybrid in our latest Kettle Off-Prem09 Dec 2023 | 20
Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot 'This is a brainstorming concept a team is at the early stages of exploring' AI + ML08 Dec 2023 | 13
Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance Security08 Dec 2023 | 6
Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court Same old argument about free speech – let's see if it sticks this time Legal08 Dec 2023 | 42
Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot OSes08 Dec 2023 | 15
Thirty-nine weeks: That's how long you'll be waiting for an AI server from Dell FYI Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite
AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code Interview CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years Systems08 Dec 2023 | 7
Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven HashiCorp software faces challenge after licensing change Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 | 1
Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation Science08 Dec 2023 | 18
Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 6
That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins Security08 Dec 2023 | 19
Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes It looks like everything is coming up HP. Do you want some help with that? OSes08 Dec 2023 | 22
What are you feeding your AI? AI is changing the world, but your AI algorithms might need a diet of high-quality data captured at the edge Commissioned
You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages IaaS Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL
Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant LLMs Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more ML Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most
AWS pushes cell-based architecture for ‘resilience at scale’ IaaS Because of course in cloud, durability is opt-in
AWS radically speeds up small S3 object access with new tier Storage The pricing is the usual Amazon maze of numbers, we note
Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo LOGOWATCH Days left to decide chameleon's fate ... vote now Bootnotes08 Dec 2023 | 10
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights Has recent CEO, board shenanigans given rise to a merger situation? CMA is asking for a friend AI + ML08 Dec 2023 | 9
Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support This is release 0b11111111 (0xFF) – what could possibly go wrong? OSes08 Dec 2023 | 51
What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck Yearning for the pre-web internet can be misplaced... it certainly wasn't user-friendly Networks08 Dec 2023 | 47
Openreach hits halfway mark in quest to hook up 25M premises with fiber broadband 12.5 million teased with speedy internet, only 4 million take the bait Networks08 Dec 2023 | 25
BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus Episode Are you sure you don't want to rethink that, though, Boss? BOFH08 Dec 2023 | 48
Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970 On Call Cover-up saved the culprit after a battery of tests diagnosed the problem On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 168
Hubble Space Telescope is back in the game after NASA fixes gyro glitch No repair mission required – for now Science08 Dec 2023 | 19
Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either Security08 Dec 2023 | 67
US lawmakers want blanket denial for sensitive tech export licenses to China Committee worries licenses are being issued to boost and suit business, not national security Legal08 Dec 2023 | 7
Cisco's cloud network push will tie licensing change to generational product refreshes Bundled support has already come to Catalyst – but don't bother asking how it works Networks08 Dec 2023 | 6
Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs The idea that Big Content should pay network operators is in trouble Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 | 29
A tailored approach to GenAI How using Retrieval Augmented Generation can enhance your AI development and deployment Webinar
Five Eyes nations warn Moscow's mates at the Star Blizzard gang have new phishing targets The Russians are coming! Err, they've already infiltrated UK, US inboxes Security08 Dec 2023 | 7
Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in models Security boosted and inappropriate content blocked in large language models AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 4
Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units Updated Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces Virtualization07 Dec 2023 | 28
Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged Security07 Dec 2023 | 12
Chinese boffins pitch quadcopter for Mars sample return mission In the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind Science07 Dec 2023 | 11
Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability Middling performance, but check out the longevity Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 42
US and EU infosec authorities pen intel-sharing pact As Cyber Solidarity Act edges closer to full adoption in Europe Cyber-crime07 Dec 2023 | 2
Raspberry Pi OS goes goth First post-Pi 5 update brings dark mode among numerous bug fixes Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 16
Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 11
Meta starts rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger Surfing the cryptographic wave Applications07 Dec 2023 | 7
A platform for securely scaling operations at the edge How Dell NativeEdge provides the confidence to succeed at the outer limits of your operation Commissioned
HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' Apparently they're being serious Bootnotes07 Dec 2023 | 88
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8
Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients NHS Trust admits highly sensitive data left online for nearly three years Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 10
GitLab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing Code shack has had two years since auditor's 'adverse opinion' to get house in order Devops07 Dec 2023 | 8
Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off for three years Between a bloc and a hard place Legal07 Dec 2023 | 70
Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun Should have called Vista 'Shitterton' and had done with it OSes07 Dec 2023 | 52
Iran launches 'biological capsule' to low Earth orbit Precursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals Science07 Dec 2023 | 8
Belgian man charged with smuggling sanctioned military tech to Russia and China Indictments allege plot to shift FPGAs, accelerometers, and spycams Security07 Dec 2023 | 13
Shielding the data that drives AI Why we need the confidence to deploy secure, compliant AI-powered applications and workloads
Upscaling smaller businesses with optimised ICT How Intel vPro brings enterprise class IT within reach of SMBs
DBaaS takes the trouble out of cloud databases How open-source databases operating in the cloud can deliver performance, flexibility, scalability and cost savings
Meeting the global need for greener data How new server CPUs have been optimised for performance per watt to improve datacenter sustainability metrics
Cisco delivers a powerup to its switches for small and medium biz Catalyst 1200 and 1300 keep perpetual licenses, PoE and stackability Networks07 Dec 2023 | 3
Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in 'He can't just make his own rules,' Danish labor leader says of Musk Offbeat07 Dec 2023 | 168
Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini Don't worry, your developer jobs are safe … for now AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 11
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully Security07 Dec 2023 | 20
Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven HashiCorp software faces challenge after licensing change
Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot 'This is a brainstorming concept a team is at the early stages of exploring'
That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins
AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code Interview CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years
Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes It looks like everything is coming up HP. Do you want some help with that?
Hollywood plays unwitting Cameo in Kremlin plot to discredit Zelensky Microsoft spots surge in pro-Russia exploits of video platform to spread propaganda
Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot
Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court Same old argument about free speech – let's see if it sticks this time
Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance
Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation
Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec CANALYS APAC FORUMS Also: India's PC ban didn't take into account needs of ecosystem Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 63
Dell APJ chief: Industry won't wait for Nvidia H100 CANALYS APAC FORUM Canalys mostly agrees, but thinks GPU giant still has a way to go Systems07 Dec 2023 |
Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 141
Accelerate time to insight for AI and HPC Why few AI projects can get off the ground unless data flows freely Sponsored Feature
Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Science06 Dec 2023 | 11
US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs Cupertino promises to reveal its data deliveries, ending silence on the matter Personal Tech06 Dec 2023 | 9
Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack Issue has been around since at least 2012 Security06 Dec 2023 | 14
AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100 Systems06 Dec 2023 | 7
Google launches Gemini AI systems, claims it's beating OpenAI and others - mostly Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors
Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hype Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment
Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon?
Nvidia sees Huawei, Intel in rear mirror as it grapples with China ban Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day' Systems06 Dec 2023 | 6
Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Systems06 Dec 2023 | 2
Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Science06 Dec 2023 | 10
Accelerating software delivery while keeping a close check Why upgrading and streamling your approach can pay long term business dividends Webinar