Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid
On Call
An ill-considered cron job turned into a nasty 2AM job
BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries
Episode 7
He was charged on the spot
Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company of them all still pushing to become cloud power
Opinion
Middle aged spread begins as it joins IBM
It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary
Column
We should know why we see what we see, not be left in the dark
Russia-pushed UN Cybercrime Treaty may rewrite global law. It's ... not great
Special report Let's go through all the proposed problematic powers, starting with surveillance and censorship
Cyber-crime14 Apr 2023 | 4
Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack
Actual features pending, please pay us now
Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 3
US extradites Nigerian charged in $6m email fraud scam
Maybe our prince has come at last
Cyber-crime14 Apr 2023 | 4
ESA's Juice blasts off to squeeze secrets from Jupiter's moons
Few orbital boosts and we'll get the snaps in eight years
Science14 Apr 2023 |
Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers
OK, they're a bit old in terms of Intel kit, but these aren't your regular systems
Systems14 Apr 2023 | 5
Compatibility mess breaks not one but two Windows password tools
Windows LAPS and legacy LAPS don't play nicely under certain conditions, Microsoft says
CSO14 Apr 2023 | 4
FerretDB 1.0 offers fresh approach to open source document databases
How to PostgreSQL MongoDB out of the equation
Databases14 Apr 2023 | 3
China the largest buyer of chipmaking machines as sales hit an all-time high
Despite US blocks to advanced technology nodes
Systems14 Apr 2023 | 4
Don't miss: ESA's Juice to probe Jupiter's moons for signs of life
Feature We speak to professor in multi-year, billion-plus-euro mission
Ex-CIO must pay £81k over Total Shambles Bank migration
Yes, the week-long IT meltdown that sparked a multitude of sarcastic Reg headlines
PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2023 | 11
The return of the classic Flying Toasters screensaver
Friday FOSS Fest OK, here's my question: Would you like to have it on x86 Linux?
Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 25
LiquidStack CEO on why you shouldn't ignore immersion cooling
Interview Depending on use case, the efficiency gains can be significant
Energy Efficient Datacenters14 Apr 2023 | 9
While Twitter wants to sell its verification, Microsoft will do it for free on LinkedIn
Redmond expands a digital ID process for its platform as Musk seeks cash for blue check marks
CSO14 Apr 2023 | 17
BOFH: We send a user to visit Kelvin – Keeper of the Batteries
Episode 7 He was charged on the spot
BOFH14 Apr 2023 | 62
Red Hat at 30: Biggest Linux company of them all still pushing to become cloud power
Opinion Middle aged spread begins as it joins IBM
OSes14 Apr 2023 | 10
GET ENERGY EFFICIENT
Are accelerators the cure to video's power problem or just an excuse to peddle GPUs?
Analysis You could just watch less TikTok or Twitch, maybe go outside
Energy efficiency starts to rock telcos' 5G infrastructure choices
News And not only because not considering their options makes them look bad
Why Microsoft is really abandoning evaporative coolers at its Phoenix DCs
In-depth Less about love of the planet, more frustrated city officials
It's time to stop fearing CPU power management
Feature It's (probably) not going to kill your latency and it could save you a buck
Just because on-prem is cheaper doesn’t make the cloud a money pit
Comment Oh and expect to DCs to get more expensive, not less, analysts warn
Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid
On Call An ill-considered cron job turned into a nasty 2AM job
Software14 Apr 2023 | 44
Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'
Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw
Security14 Apr 2023 | 17
Germany and Intel both want more from planned Magdeburg mega-fab
Chipzilla reportedly wants more cash. Germany wants a bigger facility. And the EU is lurking with a bigger offer
Systems14 Apr 2023 | 3
To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots
When admitting to an error isn't seen as a failure, improvement easy to achieve, says pilot-turned-CISO
Security14 Apr 2023 | 40
AWS CodeWhisperer AI coder now generally available, remains free for individual developers
Preview of ahead of time compilation in ASP.NET Core shows big gains, big compatibility issues
Don’t call it Rust: Community complains about draft trademark policy restricting use of ‘word marks’
Interview: the story behind Slint 1.0 – a new cross-platform GUI toolkit coded in Rust
Sony Semiconductor sinks Simoleans into Raspberry Pi to advance edge AI
Raspboss Eben Upton teases products built on ML-enabled edge sensors
Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 8
AWS debuts generative AI stuff so smart you might give it your money twice
Updated Bedrock offers APIs for multiple models, plus EC2 instances for home-grown LLMs
AI + ML14 Apr 2023 | 2
Tencent said to have demoted and fired tech bosses after brief outages
Think the news has execs at Microsoft 365 or AWS quaking in their boots?
Networks14 Apr 2023 | 10
Google Pay mistakenly rains free cash on netizens
Go on, take the money and run (Not actual legal advice)
Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 2
Behind the green datacenter door
How AMD approaches the problem of delivering improved energy
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Intel pulls plug on server system design division
Blueprints flogged off to Taiwan's MiTAC
On-Prem13 Apr 2023 | 4
Don't worry, folks, here comes Chuck Schumer with some ideas about regulating AI
As Europe forms task force to steer probes into ChatGPT
AI + ML13 Apr 2023 | 18
Pentagon super-leak suspect cuffed: 21-year-old Air National Guardsman
When bragging about your job on Discord gets just a little out of hand?
Cyber-crime13 Apr 2023 | 84
DEFENSE TECH FOCUS
Drones aim to undo Ukraine's landmine problem
Feature Draganfly aims to help clear invaded nation of deadly devices
This is how you hunt cyber-threats in a war zone
Interview The Reg speaks to one of the founders of the Cisco Talos Ukraine task force
Intel ships multi-die chips ahead of schedule – to the US military
News What else when you have a customer that will only accept these three words: Sir, yes, sir
US defense tech veterans call for a separate Cyber Force
Analysis A seventh branch of the military is needed to address rising threats
How this startup tracked that Chinese spy balloon using AI
Interview Synthetaic CEO on finding Beijing's 'needle in a haystack' of sat imagery
Microsoft mucks with PrtScr key for first time in decades
In Windows 11 it'll soon default to the Snipping Tool. And that's just fine with users, right?
OSes13 Apr 2023 | 57
IT boss arrested over Cash App exec Bob Lee death
Updated Alleged killer said to be industry pal, faces one count of murder
On-Prem13 Apr 2023 | 13
Twitter users can now trade stocks on the platform – sort of
Musk's everything app begins to take shape ... by adding links to an outside service
Networks13 Apr 2023 | 20
Mission possible
Tamping down risk in cloud management
Webinar
Double BSD birthday bash beckons – or triple, if you count MidnightBSD 3.0
Both FreeBSD 13.2 and OpenBSD 7.3 are here
OSes13 Apr 2023 | 16
Boffins rewrite the book on how Earth's oceans developed
You don't need alien asteroids, you just need a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid hot magma
Science13 Apr 2023 | 30
It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary
Column We should know why we see what we see, not be left in the dark
Software13 Apr 2023 | 63
OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems
Air by itself just doesn't cut it anymore
Energy Efficient Datacenters13 Apr 2023 | 10
Fancy trying the granddaddy of Windows NT for free? Now's your chance
VSI releases OpenVMS 9.2-1 and x86 hobby licenses
Applications13 Apr 2023 | 79
Italy will say ciao to ChatGPT ban if OpenAI does indeed think of the children
Updated And also, privacy safeguards
AI + ML13 Apr 2023 | 7
Europe moves to derail Broadcom's VMware takeover
Strangling competition won't fly here, says Brussels
Virtualization13 Apr 2023 | 1
Worried about the security of your code's dependencies? Try Google's Deps.dev
Is this what the kids mean by owning the libs?
Devops13 Apr 2023 | 13
SPONSORED FEATURES
When it comes to technology, securing your future means securing your present
How to build cyber resiliency in the face of complexity
Why AI inference will remain largely on the CPU
It’s a complex argument, but there are good reasons why inference shouldn’t head into accelerators or GPUs
The age of acceleration engines
Why CPU core counts may not be as important as you think
DDoS DNS attacks are old-school, unsophisticated … and they’re back
So why would you handle them on your own?
San Francisco fog defeats pack of Waymo robo-taxis
Software fix coming – that'll be a braking change we'd actually like to see
NYC Mayor: Robo-pup 'out of the pound' and back to police work
Video Please don't pair it with ChatGPT, please don't pair it with ChatGPT
America ain't exactly outlawing gas cars but it's steering hard into EVs
Maybe soon all our friends are electric
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Fancy trying the granddaddy of Windows NT for free? Now's your chance
VSI releases OpenVMS 9.2-1 and x86 hobby licenses
It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary
Column We should know why we see what we see, not be left in the dark
Don't worry, folks, here comes Chuck Schumer with some ideas about regulating AI
As Europe forms task force to steer probes into ChatGPT
Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'
Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw
Boffins rewrite the book on how Earth's oceans developed
You don't need alien asteroids, you just need a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid hot magma
Automation is great. Until it breaks and nobody gets paid
On Call An ill-considered cron job turned into a nasty 2AM job
To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots
When admitting to an error isn't seen as a failure, improvement easy to achieve, says pilot-turned-CISO
Microsoft mucks with PrtScr key for first time in decades
In Windows 11 it'll soon default to the Snipping Tool. And that's just fine with users, right?
AWS debuts generative AI stuff so smart you might give it your money twice
Updated Bedrock offers APIs for multiple models, plus EC2 instances for home-grown LLMs
Google Pay mistakenly rains free cash on netizens
Go on, take the money and run (Not actual legal advice)
STORIES
Microsoft's Garage band offers album of experimental Excel jazz
For those who think spreadsheet app isn't wild enough, try some of these potential future widgets
Applications12 Apr 2023 | 11
Colorado sends agricultural right to repair bill to governor
Updated If passed, it'll be the first law in the US to require tractor makers to hand over documentation and parts
Personal Tech12 Apr 2023 | 9
Elon Musk actually sits down and talks to 'government-funded media' the BBC
Updated Plus: RIP Twitter Inc – it's X Corp now
Networks12 Apr 2023 | 100
Energy efficiency pays its way in the datacenter
Talking Tcase, watts, and bucks with Lenovo’s GM of HPC and AI
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SPOTLIGHT ON DATABASES
From Sun to the cloud: MariaDB carves out space in database market
Interview CEO on industry shifts that allow open source and smaller players to gain a footing
When it comes to database security it's down to people, not tech fixes, to save the day
Interview Get your staff and processes lined up and ready to go
Couchbase's chief techie on squaring the schema-less circle
Interview Ravi Mayuram on work to make life easier for devs while sprinkling a bit of SQL on top
Cloud Security Alliance VP: Database security boils down to these three things
Interview Here's how not to end up in their next report as a cautionary tale
AWS security exec: You don't want to win this database popularity contest
Interview Data guarding requires better 'education, better technology, and better automation'
Arm, Intel make it easier to churn out Arm SoCs from Intel fabs
Energy sipping designs for mobile, ultimately coming to DC, too
Salesforce lets go of more of its towering presence in San Francisco
Updated Fancy a sublease? Office digs in Silicon Valley hometown hotspot up for grabs
Goddard Space Flight Center's new boss swears in on holy Pale Blue Dot
Some brilliant toys await Dr Makenzie Lystrup in mega space facility
UK govt wants standalone 5G by 2030 but won't shell out to help hit target
Instead tech department working on 'range of measures' to foster investment
Networks12 Apr 2023 | 84
Tiny Brit tech firms win spots on £1.84B public sector contract. Kidding, it's the usual suspects
Collective deal to cover software needs for every rung of government
PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2023 | 21
Python head hisses at looming Euro cybersecurity rules
Red-tape vague enough to land open source volunteers in hot water for iffy code
Devops12 Apr 2023 | 60
Police Digital Service – moving data to where it matters
The public need to know that the police are holding data securely and safely
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