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
RE:INVENT 2023
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
JetBrains releases its AI Assistant and pricing – but how does it compare to Github Copilot?
20 years of Django: Version 5.0 is out with improved form authoring and new ORM features
AI Assistants write insecure code that humans trust too much, Snyk survey finds
Interview: Not much on Kubernetes at AWS re:Invent? More than it seemed, VP tells us
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
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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
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Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot
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That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim
Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins
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Dell APJ chief: Industry won't wait for Nvidia H100
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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
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