BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Episode 6
Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ...
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' after ChatGPT leaks conversations, payment info
Updated
Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI
Opinion
Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem
On Call
Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs
How Arm aims to squeeze device makers for cash rather than pocket pennies for cores
Analysis I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further
On-Prem25 Mar 2023 | 44
RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94
'Impossible to imagine the world we live in today ... without his contributions'
On-Prem25 Mar 2023 | 35
Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew
Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points?
Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 29
Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug
All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically
OSes24 Mar 2023 | 36
Barred from US tech, Huawei claims to have built its own 14nm chip design suite
Beijing's Made in China drive fueled by Washington's export crackdowns
Software24 Mar 2023 | 11
CISA unleashes Untitled Goose Tool to honk at danger in Microsoft's cloud
Not a headline we expected to write today
CSO24 Mar 2023 | 5
Oracle reportedly making job cuts at health IT arm Cerner
OCI is much more efficient than the acquired Cerner DCs, Ellison told investors
Spotlight on Databases24 Mar 2023 | 4
Matthew Brown Companies confirms it's in funding talks with Virgin Orbit
Back to work on Monday? Branson and co still fighting to get funding
Offbeat24 Mar 2023 | 7
Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count
Numerical abilities could be a hardwired, ancient feature of the developing vertebrate brain, study suggests
Science24 Mar 2023 | 17
GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update
Getting connection failures? Don't panic. Get new keys
Security24 Mar 2023 | 23
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block
2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip
Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 33
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI
Opinion Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot
Software24 Mar 2023 | 22
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Episode 6 Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ...
BOFH24 Mar 2023 | 47
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem
On Call Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs
Software24 Mar 2023 | 150
There's one sure winner in the AI explosion, say analysts: Dutch outfit ASML
It’s the only game in town for extreme ultraviolet lithography, and that makes it every chip shop’s new best friend
AI + ML24 Mar 2023 | 11
French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics
Liberté, égalité, reconnaissance faciale for all
Security24 Mar 2023 | 33
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365
Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize
Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 27
Where in the world is Terraform Labs villain Do Kwon? Montenegro, actually
Probably in a jail cell, waiting to be extradited stateside
Legal24 Mar 2023 | 11
Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend
Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad
Networks24 Mar 2023 | 2
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GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update
Getting connection failures? Don't panic. Get new keys
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem
On Call Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs
Barred from US tech, Huawei claims to have built its own 14nm chip design suite
Beijing's Made in China drive fueled by Washington's export crackdowns
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI
Opinion Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Episode 6 Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ...
Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug
All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block
2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip
CISA unleashes Untitled Goose Tool to honk at danger in Microsoft's cloud
Not a headline we expected to write today
RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94
'Impossible to imagine the world we live in today ... without his contributions'
Oracle reportedly making job cuts at health IT arm Cerner
OCI is much more efficient than the acquired Cerner DCs, Ellison told investors
STORIES
Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid
It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances'
Legal24 Mar 2023 | 4
Uncle Sam reveals it sent cyber-soldiers to Albania to hunt for Iranian threats
'Hunt forward' teams of this sort aid with defense and learn how attackers like Tehran operate
Security24 Mar 2023 | 6
Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket, lifts off ... and fails to reach orbit
Mission named 'Good Luck Have Fun' needed more of both
Science23 Mar 2023 | 8
Critical infrastructure gear is full of flaws, but hey, at least it's certified
Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed
CSO23 Mar 2023 | 18
SPOTLIGHT ON DATABASES
SAP user group: We want the same features on-prem that you put in the cloud
News Concerns over multi-million investments customers already made in their on-prem ERP systems
Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small
Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade
Ellison's healthcare obsession carries risks for Oracle
Analysis But if he swings it, the company can secure long term growth
The nodes have it in the Great DB debate: Reg readers pick graph
Register Debate Industry upstart preferred... for now
Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live
News Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike
Opportunity, challenge, promise?
The impact of AI on enterprise IT
Webinar
Intel bumps up core counts for 13th-gen vPro chips
'We don't think it's a luxury' veep tells The Reg
On-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 8
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' after ChatGPT leaks conversations, payment info
Updated Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name
AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 18
Red Hat veteran will head up SUSE from May as Di Donato steps down
In the meantime, the CFO is also interim CEO
Software23 Mar 2023 | 4
D-Wave hello to another quantum pioneer warned over possible delisting
Share price slides below $1 for 30 days straight, but company vows it will comply with NYSE regs again
HPC23 Mar 2023 | 3
Tails 5.11: Secure-surfing 'amnesiac' live distro arrives
A highly opinionated little live USB/DVD/VM image for the paranoid
OSes23 Mar 2023 | 13
Turing Award goes to Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet
A cool $1 million to a man who is not afraid to eat his own words, nor roll out his own cable
Networks23 Mar 2023 | 39
Secure mail
Protection from business email compromise
Webinar
GTC 2023
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing
Analysis Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together
News Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too
Nvidia’s four workhorses of the AI inference revolution
In-depth GPU giant is sort of doing what we expected. But not quite
Nvidia bends the clouds to its own financial will
In-depth It knows how to milk AWS, GCP and Azure
Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography
News What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change
Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened
PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20
First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research
Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship
Science23 Mar 2023 | 38
Croquet for Unity: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming... but it's so much more
Updated This is that rare announcement that's far more significant than it sounds
Software23 Mar 2023 | 14
Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash
Terminal maker General Bytes shutters its cloud business after second breach in seven months
Security23 Mar 2023 | 30
SPONSORED FEATURES
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Here’s how to spot the difference
Developers - Make life easier by grabbing more of the data life cycle
How MongoDB provides capabilities which help you do more with less
Feeding the smartphone frenzy? It’s a matter of time and space
Micron’s novel 1-beta node can connect your smartphone and the enterprise
India gives itself a mission to lead the 'Global South' into 6G era
Builds its own seat at the standards development table
South Korea fines McDonald's for data leak from raw SMB share
British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec
We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in
Register Kettle We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review
Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 45
Cisco kindly reveals proof of concept attacks for flaws in rival Netgear's kit
Maybe this is deserved given the problem's in a hidden telnet service
Research22 Mar 2023 | 23
Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive
Now that's a flash bang
Cyber-crime22 Mar 2023 | 41
Microsoft freaks out users with Windows 11 warning: 'LSA protection is off'
Alerts telling folks their 'device may be vulnerable' triggered by KB5007651
OSes22 Mar 2023 | 48
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word
A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 18
Aerospike targets Java Spring devs with support for the popular framework
Database shortcuts built in popular environment in hopes of scoring devs who want an easy life
Spotlight on Databases22 Mar 2023 |
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life
JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan
Science22 Mar 2023 | 13
Reaping the rewards of the future
The benefits of modernizing your PC estate
Webinar
SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY
Snap CISO: I rate software supply chain risk 9.9 out of 10
Interview 'Understanding your inventory is absolutely No. 1' he tells The Reg
SBOM is a 'massive galaxy of mess' for supply chain security
Interview Talos team warns on third-party threats, but will it work? Betteridge's Law may apply
Feeling VEXed by software supply chain security? You’re not alone
Interview Chainguard CEO explains how to secure code given crims know to poison it at the source
Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger'
Interview Industry hasn't 'improved much at all' Mandiant's Eric Scales tells us
SBOMs should be a security staple in the software supply chain
Backgrounder Know the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake...
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years
Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule
Watchdog: Broadcom buy of VMware may be bad for competition
Server price hikes, rival hardware makers locked out ... haven't we been warning that for a while?
IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs
You'd think there'd be more techies on the market, but many cuts were in business areas
GitHub Copilot learns new tricks, adopts this year's model
Armed with GPT-4, Microsoft's AI 'pair programmer' can tag pull requests, parrot documentation, talk about code
AI + ML22 Mar 2023 | 13
Boffins develop AI model for designing proteins to make synthetic blood plasma
And it's not the only hybrid synthetic biomaterial scientists are targeting
AI + ML22 Mar 2023 |
German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook
Country's super strong data rights under magnifying glass after half a dozen complaints filed
Security22 Mar 2023 | 16
HPC in the cloud for FEA
How AWS’ infrastructure powers the most demanding computer simulations
Hot Seat Interview
Biting the hand that feeds IT
