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My card could beat up your card
Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come
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The difference between 1983 and 1993 is vast. Since then, not so much
Artificial intelligence is a liability
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Automating people out of business processes will not go well at all, mark our words
War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape
Feature The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths
OSes25 Dec 2023 | 30
How the tech toy century has troubled Santa's sack
Opinion Bell Labs made it bulge then Gordon Moore made it deflate
Personal Tech25 Dec 2023 | 17
ESA's Mars Express continues to avoid retirement home
Space Extenders II Another chunk of science, another mission extension. But probe is running on fumes
Science24 Dec 2023 | 14
Iranian cyberspies target US defense orgs with a brand new backdoor
Infosec in brief Also: International cops crackdown on credit card stealers and patch these critical vulns
Cyber-crime23 Dec 2023 | 8
Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?
Analysis Looking into our crystal ball we can see the end of 2024 will be filled with … AI. So much AI
OSes23 Dec 2023 | 130
Cyber sleuths reveal how they infiltrate the biggest ransomware gangs
Feature How do you break into the bad guys' ranks? Master the lingo and research, research, research
Cyber-crime22 Dec 2023 | 8
Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?
Opinion From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no
Personal Tech22 Dec 2023 | 118
BOFH: The Christmas party was so good, an independent inquiry is required
Episode 24 So ... time for round 2?
BOFH22 Dec 2023 | 89
Facing stiff competition, Intel's Lisa Spelman reflects on Xeon hurdles, opportunities
Interview With Emerald Rapids, Chipzilla's Xeon roadmap is back on track – now it just needs to stay there
Superuser mostly helped IT, until a BSOD saw him invent a farcical fix
On Call It was only a matter of time until enthusiasm alone wasn't enough
Personal Tech22 Dec 2023 | 53
Cisco goes Christmas shopping, buys Cilium project originator Isovalent
Switchzilla likes what eBPF does for multicloud networking and security
Networks22 Dec 2023 | 12
China bans export of rare earth processing kit
Beijing also wants its human gene-editing kit – and LiDAR– to stay at home
Legal22 Dec 2023 | 98
Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies
Interview Governments may dictate where or when you use it, but it's not a gift card
Software21 Dec 2023 | 129
Lapsus$ teen sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital for Nvidia, GTA cyberattacks
Arion Kurtaj will remain hospitalized until a mental health tribunal says he can leave
Cyber-crime21 Dec 2023 | 41
Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency
Rapid unscheduled disassembly not exactly a desirable quality for medical imaging equipment
Bootnotes21 Dec 2023 | 39
2024 IT management trends: It’s generative AI and everything else
Generative AI ate the world in 2023. IT leaders must marshal their infrastructure resources to consume more GenAI workloads in 2024
Commissioned
FTC wants to crack down on Big Biz profiting from kids' data
COPPA changes on the horizon. Meta, Amazon and friends must be thrilled
Personal Tech21 Dec 2023 | 5
Intel trims a few hundred workers in Cali just in time for Christmas
Merry Xmas! Now get out
On-Prem21 Dec 2023 | 6
Four in five Apache Struts 2 downloads are for versions featuring critical flaw
Seriously, people - please check the stuff you fetch more carefully
Patches21 Dec 2023 | 10
Artificial intelligence is a liability
Comment Automating people out of business processes will not go well at all, mark our words
AI + ML21 Dec 2023 | 84
DEVCLASS: TOP OF 2023
Slash costs by ditching microservices for monolith: Internal Amazon study raises eyebrows
DevOps Not so ready for Prime time, huh?
Microsoft’s Visual Basic: Why it won, and why it had to die
Scripting 'The final product horrified Cooper, who loathed BASIC'
TypeScript is ‘not worth it’ for developing libraries, says Svelte creator
Code We'll switch to JavaScript and JSDoc, thankyouverymuch
Ruby on Rails creator cuts TypeScript from Turbo framework, upsets community
Tools 'Never been a fan'
Dart 3.1 and Flutter 3.13 released – are you ready to leave HTML behind?
Analysis Pfft, who uses the Web these days anyway?
Mozilla decides Trusted Types is a worthy security feature
DOM-XSS attacks have become scarce on Google websites since TT debuted
Security21 Dec 2023 | 15
Asahi's Fedora remix dazzles and baffles on Apple Silicon
Take an M1 or M2-powered Mac and turn it into a fast ARM64 PC, if that's what you fancy
OSes21 Dec 2023 | 52
Why Nvidia and AMD are roasting each other over AI performance claims
Analysis My card could beat up your card
On-Prem21 Dec 2023 | 8
'The computer was sitting in a puddle of mud, with water up to the motherboard'
On Call: Dirt File We asked you to share the dirtiest places you've been asked to work. Here are some of your filthy answers
On-Prem21 Dec 2023 | 56
BLOCKS&FILES: TOP OF 2023
Pure: No more hard drives will be sold after 2028
Comment Prophetic prediction ... or wishful thinking from this SSD slinger?
IBM reboots storage portfolio
CTO Buyers prefer 'more manageable number' of products – ie: fewer
AWS S3: You can check out but can never leave
Off-prem Amazon loves growing its cloud storage offerings - and your egress costs
We object! MinIO says no more open license for Weka
CxO Get Wekt, kid
Western Digital boss most disliked tech CEO in survey
CxO Everyone loves Jensen, tho
Europe classifies three adult sites as worthy of its toughest internet regulations
Very Large Online Platform status means NSFW sites must clean up their acts
Legal21 Dec 2023 | 63
Data loss prevention isn't rocket science, but NASA hasn't made it work in Microsoft 365
Privacy review finds breach response plan is a mess, training could be better, but protection regime mostly holds up
Public Sector21 Dec 2023 | 13
Japan to allow limited rideshare services starting April 2024
Like Uber, but with drivers overseen by cab companies … for now
Software21 Dec 2023 | 5
Calculating Pi in the sky: Axiom Space plans to launch 'orbital datacenter'
Small rack to lift off in 2027 – we reckon it might be 10U or 12U, which can pack a lot of power
On-Prem21 Dec 2023 | 20
The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is back!
Skip the sleigh and sail with Santa in this year’s fun, hands-on SANS cybersecurity event
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Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions
Why keeping your PC secure and free of malware remains paramount
Cyber-crime20 Dec 2023 | 26
Cybercrooks book a stay in hotel email inboxes to trick staff into spilling credentials
Research highlights how major attacks like those exploiting Booking.com are executed
Cyber-crime20 Dec 2023 | 20
SEC charges ex-medtech CEO with fraud for selling plastic fake implants
Sure, bogus blood tests are bad, but have you considered tricking doctors into embedded useless tubes?
Bootnotes20 Dec 2023 | 13
KETTLE: YOUR FAVES
Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him
Twitter First he was speed-running moderation, now internet advertising. Welcome to the party, pal
Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong?
On-Prem Or very right? Either way, it's not the usual atomic op we see in IT
Still got a job at the end of this week? You're lucky, as more layoffs hit the tech industry
Careers 'Beatings will continue until morale improves'
To be, or not to be, in the office. Has returning to work stalled?
RTO Register journos brew up on the future of hybrid in our latest Kettle
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath
CTO We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key
Microsoft prescribes command-line surgery for HP Smart app malady
Printer names messed up? Debug It Yourself
OSes20 Dec 2023 | 14
This could still wing its way to you, if you have the dosh: One Concorde engine seeks new home
That'll make a lot of expensive ashtrays
Bootnotes20 Dec 2023 | 36
Study uncovers presence of CSAM in popular AI training dataset
Updated LAION-5B contains 1,008 verifiable instances of illegal pictures of children, likely lots more, say researchers
AI + ML20 Dec 2023 | 25
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
NASA makes purrrr-fect deep space transmission of cat vid
Tabby footage crosses millions of miles and was still faster than most folks' home broadband
Networks20 Dec 2023 | 17
FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years
Among the mistakes, an 11-year-old girl was misidentified as a shoplifter and searched
AI + ML20 Dec 2023 | 35
Danish techies claim they can predict your next move (and your last)
Life's a vector, then you die
Science20 Dec 2023 | 29
Microsoft offers rollback for those affected by Windows wireless futility
See, it wasn't just you
OSes20 Dec 2023 | 20
Penguins get their Wayland with Firefox 121
Latest version of Mozilla's web browser brings something different depending on your machine
Software20 Dec 2023 | 14
UK officials caught napping ahead of 2G and 3G doomsday
Parking meters and trash collection face disruption as networks switch off
Networks20 Dec 2023 | 81
Manchester's finest drowning in paperwork as Freedom of Information requests pile up
Updated Enforcement notice issued months after data regulator schooled police force
Security20 Dec 2023 | 28
Women in IT are on a 283-year march to parity, BCS warns
Chartered institute highlights lack of progress in tech role equality
Offbeat20 Dec 2023 | 86
SSH shaken, not stirred by Terrapin vulnerability
No need to panic, but grab those updates or mitigations anyway just to be safe
Patches20 Dec 2023 | 13
Long-delayed Ariane 6 rocket is 'ready to go' – hopefully – says European Space Agency
Latest launch sim went off without a hitch. An upper stage test, not so much
Science20 Dec 2023 | 2
China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA
MTT S4000 GPU isn't super-fast, but the 'kilocard cluster' design supporting it looks interesting
Systems20 Dec 2023 | 23
Singapore wants datacenters, clouds, regulated like critical infrastructure
Even systems located outside city-state could be considered 'foundational' and face performance demands
Off-Prem20 Dec 2023 | 3
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On-Prem20 Dec 2023 | 1
Philippines, South Korea, Interpol cuff 3,500 suspected cyber scammers, seize $300M
Alleged crims used AI to pose as friends, family, romantic partners – and sold dodgy NFTs
Cyber-crime20 Dec 2023 | 5
California approves lavatory-to-faucet water recycling
'Water? Like out of the toilet?' It will get cleaned first and it'll be better than Brawndo
Bootnotes19 Dec 2023 | 41
Musk floats idea of boat mod for Cybertruck
Oh yes, please, get in the sea
Bootnotes19 Dec 2023 | 116
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Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come
Comment The difference between 1983 and 1993 is vast. Since then, not so much
Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?
Opinion From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no
Something nasty injected login-stealing JavaScript into 50K online banking sessions
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War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape
Feature The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths
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Artificial intelligence is a liability
Comment Automating people out of business processes will not go well at all, mark our words
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Iranian cyberspies target US defense orgs with a brand new backdoor
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Millions of Xfinity customers' info, hashed passwords feared stolen in cyberattack
35M-plus Comcast user IDs accessed by intruder via Citrix Bleed
Cyber-crime19 Dec 2023 | 29
Before you go away for Xmas: You've patched that critical Perforce Server hole, right?
Microsoft bug hunters highlight weaknesses in source-wrangling suite
Patches19 Dec 2023 | 9
Biden urged to do something about Europe 'unfairly' targeting American tech
5 out of 6 'gatekeepers' are US-based so regulators across pond are just being mean to us, say lawmakers
Public Sector19 Dec 2023 | 107
A platform for securely scaling operations at the edge
How Dell NativeEdge provides the confidence to succeed at the outer limits of your operation
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Debian preps ground to drop 32-bit x86 as separate edition
Bad news for several downstream distros, but good news for NetBSD
OSes19 Dec 2023 | 22
FBI develops decryptor for BlackCat ransomware, seizes gang's website
Updated Crims laugh it off and resume their activity
Cyber-crime19 Dec 2023 | 5
To infinity and ... just over the Atlantic
Soul searching in the wake of Virgin Orbit failure
Science19 Dec 2023 | 24
Google coughs up $700M in Play Store antitrust suit
Gives Apple a sly nod over sideloading
Personal Tech19 Dec 2023 | 14
Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come
Comment The difference between 1983 and 1993 is vast. Since then, not so much
HMRC launches £500M procurement for new ERP, though project's already a 'red' risk
Rivals will need to dislodge incumbent SAP in competition for 5-year deal across three departments
Qakbot's backbot: FBI-led takedown keeps crims at bay for just 3 months
Experts say malware strain make take years to die off completely
ValueLicensing tries to smack down Microsoft defenses in license reselling spat
UK software reseller alleges 'no real prospect of success' of Windows giant's arguments
Software19 Dec 2023 | 7
Japanese brewery using generative AI to dream up new beverages
Maybe check the label before you next sip a Kirin alcopop?
AI + ML19 Dec 2023 | 30
VMware's end-user compute products are for sale. Who might buy 'em?
Would you rather a cloud that not-so-gently migrates you, or a retirement home like HCL?
Virtualization19 Dec 2023 | 17
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