Texas sues GM for selling driver data to analytics, insurance companies
Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale
Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others
Patch Tuesday
Plus more pain for Intel which fixed 43 bugs, SAP and Adobe also in on the action
Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously
Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it
IRS has loads of legacy IT, still has no firm plans to replace it
Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office
Google raps Iran's APT42 for raining down spear-phishing attacks
US politicians and Israeli officials among the top targets for the IRGC’s cyber unit
Research15 Aug 2024 |
If the world had a hyperscale datacenter capital, it would be... Northern Virginia
If you guessed Beijing, sorry – but it is number 2, according to Synergy Research figures
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Aug 2024 |
NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August
When is a mishap not really a mishap?
Science15 Aug 2024 | 16
Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning
Eric Schmidt blamed WFH and work-life balance policies for Google's stumbles in AI race
Off-Prem15 Aug 2024 | 23
Russian man who sold logins to nearly 3,000 accounts gets 40 months in jail
He’ll also have to pay back $1.2 million from fraudulent transactions he facilitated
Cyber-crime15 Aug 2024 |
Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious
Comment A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better
Software15 Aug 2024 | 14
Mad Liberator extortion crew emerges on the cyber-crook scene
Anydesk is its access tool of choice
Cyber-crime15 Aug 2024 | 1
Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec
Remember the 'go hardcore or go home' email? Turns out: not super compatible with Irish employment law
Personal Tech15 Aug 2024 | 60
Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI
Reorg of entire biz as tech giant addresses downturn in core networking segment
Networks15 Aug 2024 | 8
AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care
Column Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement
AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 27
Over 40 million Kakao Pay users' data somehow ended up with Alipay
Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity
Security15 Aug 2024 | 6
China-linked cyber-spies infect Russian govt, IT sector
No, no, go ahead, don't let us stop you, Xi
Research15 Aug 2024 | 10
Actors can license AI voice clones in union deal
Thesps at least get final say on what their doppelgängers will say
AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 2
GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself
Git blame an infrastructure update
Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 9
IRS has loads of legacy IT, still has no firm plans to replace it
Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 19
Building high performance fabrics with Ethernet
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Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran
Geek's Guide The Reg flies to Germany to visit the Speyer and Sinsheim palaces of engineering marvels
Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously
Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it
Software14 Aug 2024 | 15
Delays? We're still shipping 'small quantities' of Nvidia's GB200 in Q4, Foxconn insists
Production ramp won't kick off until Q1 2025
Systems14 Aug 2024 | 1
Russian cyber snoops linked to massive credential-stealing campaign
Citizen Lab also spots a COLDWASTREL swimming in the Rivers of Phish
Cyber-crime14 Aug 2024 |
Texas sues GM for selling driver data to analytics, insurance companies
Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale
Security14 Aug 2024 | 22
Enzo Biochem ordered to cough up $4.5 million over lousy security that led to ransomware disaster
Three state attorneys general probed the company and found plenty to chastise
Cyber-crime14 Aug 2024 | 3
NASA's VIPER rover might still reach the lunar surface after all
Intuitive Machines tosses hat into the ring for NASA's canceled trundlebot
Science14 Aug 2024 | 11
Icelandic group demos private cloud powered by renewables
Sited in Reykjavík, datacenter running on geothermals and hydropower
Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 6
LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape
Opinion Automatic for the people? Don’t mind if we do
Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery
A patch to fix the patch that caused admins to scamper for their recovery keys
OSes14 Aug 2024 | 13
SiFive offers potential Neoverse N2 rival – the P870-D RISC-V core for datacenters
Chip upstart takes aim at Arm with design that can scale up to 256 cores
Systems14 Aug 2024 | 3
Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth
Biz admits turning human women into faceless, sexualized furniture was a 'tone deaf' marketing ploy
Security14 Aug 2024 | 115
AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy keeps growing, says analyst
Investors still shovelling money into AI but 'path to monetization' still far
AI + ML14 Aug 2024 | 6
Apple-flavored Opera One brings its browser AI show to iOS
iPhone version of mobile browser sees surge of interest in wake of EU competition rules
Software14 Aug 2024 |
UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up
500 km transmission cable promises enough power for two million homes, or a heck of a lotta GPUs
On-Prem14 Aug 2024 | 121
Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures?
Opinion Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team
Security14 Aug 2024 | 35
Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?
The team knows you want one, but in the meantime why not make one yourself?
Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 48
Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'
Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice?
Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 46
Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years
There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 27
Intel, already adrift, now Armless too
Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares
Offbeat14 Aug 2024 | 9
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India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters
Online celebs might find that flattering – but not if it means a committee must approve their next livestream
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 12
NIST finalizes trio of post-quantum encryption standards
Nicely ahead of that always-a-decade-away moment when all our info becomes an open book
Security14 Aug 2024 | 12
Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others
Patch Tuesday Plus more pain for Intel which fixed 43 bugs, SAP and Adobe also in on the action
Patches14 Aug 2024 | 20
Microsoft previews Visual Studio 17.12 and updates .NET 9, adds HybridWebView to MAUI
Go 1.23 released with telemetry uploaded to Google – but opt-in after developer feedback
Why Kubernetes? Too many issues with the supposedly simpler AWS Elastic Container Service, says Figma
20 years since open source release, here comes Ruby on Rails 7.2 with JIT compiler and more
Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks
Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks
Public Sector13 Aug 2024 | 42
Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9
Video And four more phones. Woo. Yay.
Personal Tech13 Aug 2024 | 17
Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle
Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 2
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InSight data suggests plentiful water lies beneath Mars' surface
There's water in them thar hills, but it'll be really hard to get to
US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years
Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’
Linux Foundation wades into AI as Open Model Initiative joins ranks
Penguins reiterate commitment to 'fostering open, collaborative' development, licensing
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ZTE’s 16th annual sustainability report provides an update on progress to date
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Why Object First and Veeam tick the box for encryption and immutability
Feds bust minor league Radar/Dispossessor ransomware gang
The takedown may be small but any ransomware gang sent to the shops is good news in our book
Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 4
SpaceX tries to wash away Texas pollution allegations
Updated Elon Musk: Aiming for Mars, but sometimes ends up with Mercury?
Science13 Aug 2024 | 37
Huawei's Ascend 910 launches this October to challenge Nvidia's H100
US sanctions may make things hard for Huawei, but the tech titan still has big GPU ambitions
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1
Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices
Bad news if you're buying personal kit as consumer flash starts getting $$$
Storage13 Aug 2024 | 4
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Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth
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Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously
Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it
Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others
Patch Tuesday Plus more pain for Intel which fixed 43 bugs, SAP and Adobe also in on the action
Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures?
Opinion Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team
Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious
Comment A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better
Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'
Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice?
US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years
Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’
Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years
There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls
Intel, already adrift, now Armless too
Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares
Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?
The team knows you want one, but in the meantime why not make one yourself?
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US standards body proposes atomic clocks in lunar orbit to keep Moon time
Knowing precise time on satellite essential if we want accurate GPS-like system for exploration
Science13 Aug 2024 | 17
Orion SA says scammers conned company out of $60 million
Incident sounds like a BEC fraud targeting an unwitting staffer
Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 6
Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls
Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old
AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 16
Easing the pressure on datacenter infrastructure
How Nokia’s SR Linux NOS enhances automation to even out performance and maintain business continuity
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UK semi industry exposed to supply chain risk, China state ownership
Report suggests govt get cracking on a proper ownership structure survey and ... hang on, did they forget the Midlands?
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 14
AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?
We can misremember it for you wholesale
AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 14
DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage
DEF CON Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?
Black Hat and DEF CON13 Aug 2024 | 37
'Digital arrest' scams are big in India and may be spreading
Bad guys claim they're cops, keep you on hold for hours until you pay to make loved ones' crimes go away
Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 5
Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS
Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly
Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 | 252
AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs
Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you'll like SMM of this
Patches13 Aug 2024 | 10
Small datacenters face the axe under China's new energy policy
Tech industry told to clean up its act – and help others to do likewise – in pursuit of 2035 'Beautiful China' goal
Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 |
Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS
You don't get to be the biggest business in the world by being nice
Applications12 Aug 2024 | 100
Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?
SpaceX 'WasteX' Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth
Networks12 Aug 2024 | 64
Intel's microcode fix to save Raptor Lake chips may only work with default power settings
All those BIOS options that promise better performance? Enabling them might kill your processor
Systems12 Aug 2024 | 27
DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure
Def Con Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2024 | 2
A fresh approach for container management
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