Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge?
White House official makes case for ending extortion reimbursements
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion
Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever'
AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright
So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels
One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support
Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off
Intel, AMD, team with tech titans for x86 ISA overhaul
Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list
Systems15 Oct 2024 |
AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips
House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded
Systems15 Oct 2024 |
Microsoft says more ransomware stopped before reaching encryption
Volume of attacks still surging though, according to Digital Defense Report
Cyber-crime15 Oct 2024 |
Analysts predict 85 million EVs on roads by 2025 despite industry speed bumps
China will lead the way with North America trailing
Personal Tech15 Oct 2024 | 1
Windows 11 24H2 disk space hoarding a 'reporting error'
Microsoft adds another item to the known issues list
OSes15 Oct 2024 | 7
Norway datacenter dumps diesel diet, goes veggie with biofuel backup
Operator Stack Infrastructure is committed to reducing Scope 1 emissions from its facilities
On-Prem15 Oct 2024 | 21
Automotive AI player Cerence appoints ex-Intel boss Brian Krzanich as its CEO
Public opinion is against him, as comments on LinkedIn go dark
AI + ML15 Oct 2024 | 1
Microsoft says tougher punishments needed for state-sponsored cybercriminals
Although it also reaffirmed commitment to secure-by-design initiatives
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Oct 2024 | 10
Is the first European on the Moon in ESA's astronaut corps?
Interview Director General on being a good partner and developing rockets
Samsung's HBM3E has been a disaster, but there's a path back
Comment 274% profit increase belies missed deadlines, botched launches, and scrambling leadership
Systems15 Oct 2024 |
Post Office seeks more Horizon support as it continues hunt for replacement
Someone has got to keep those back end systems running
On-Prem15 Oct 2024 | 13
BBS legend Ward Christensen logs off for last time at 78
Obit Co-creator of the Computerized Bulletin Board System heads for big forum in the sky
Bootnotes15 Oct 2024 | 15
Britain opens floodgates to US datacenter investment
Who needs climate goals and planning permission anyway?
Systems15 Oct 2024 | 17
Keir Starmer tells regulators to chill as Microsoft exec takes wheel of advisory council
What could possibly go wrong?
Public Sector15 Oct 2024 | 45
ESA astronaut on the difference between flying in a Soyuz and piloting a Crew Dragon
Interview Plus: We chat about going to the Moon and keeping the ISS running for a few more years
Science15 Oct 2024 | 8
Why FMs need access to enterprise data
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CYBERSECURITY MONTH
FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
Privacy It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week
Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting
Updates Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw
CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame
Updates Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies
Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS
Crime 31M folks' usernames, email addresses, salted-encrypted passwords now out there
OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
CSO Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code
Meta gives Llama 3 vision, now if only it had a brain
Hands on El Reg gets its claws in multimodal models - and shows you how to use them and what they can do
Google hopes to spark chain reaction with nuclear energy investment
Commits to molten salt small modular reactors it thinks can come online in 2035
Off-Prem15 Oct 2024 | 39
WordPress bans WP Engine from sponsoring or participating in user groups
As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout
Software15 Oct 2024 | 23
AI amplifies systemic risk to financial sector, says India's Reserve Bank boss
Who also worries misinformation on social media could threaten liquidity
AI + ML15 Oct 2024 | 6
China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it
Enough with the racist-sounding 'dragons' and 'pandas', Beijing complains – then points the finger at koalas
Cybersecurity Month15 Oct 2024 | 13
Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6
Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters – and more submarine cables
Public Sector14 Oct 2024 | 12
US healthcare org admits up to 400,000 people's personal info was snatched
It waited till just before Columbus Day weekend to make mandated filing, but don't worry, we saw it
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 3
Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week
Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 2
VS Code migration to ECMAScript modules ‘massively improves startup performance’ – but extensions left behind for now
Google’s Code Assist Enterprise can be trained on internal source code, is focused on Google services
Microsoft previews unified .NET API for AI, and delivers .NET 9 Release Candidate with go-live license
Ruby on Rails 8.0 first beta release: A big bet on SQLite in production
Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge?
White House official makes case for ending extortion reimbursements
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 56
One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support
Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off
OSes14 Oct 2024 | 88
NASA's Europa Clipper leaves for Jupiter's moon atop Falcon Heavy
Liftoff after dodging hurricanes and paranoia scrub
Science14 Oct 2024 | 22
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion
Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever'
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 109
The role of Slough in AI infrastructure
How the UK can solidify its position as an AI powerhouse
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AI's thirst for power keeps coal fires burning bright
So much for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels
Systems14 Oct 2024 | 19
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw
No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 8
The best use for those latest manycore chips? AI, say server vendors
Analysis PC makers might not be able to sell the idea - big iron has a better chance
On-Prem14 Oct 2024 | 1
Get more licenses for less with SAP price tiering, advise experts
German ERP vendor entices users to cloud, but be aware of how the system works, ITAM experts warn
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4
UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard
Will it also plug into some common sense?
Personal Tech14 Oct 2024 | 270
Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em
Opinion How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?
Personal Tech14 Oct 2024 | 147
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Compression? What's that? And why is the network congested and the PCs frozen?
Who, Me? The only thing worse than a Reply All storm is a Send All storm
Software14 Oct 2024 | 87
Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys
Cybersecurity Month14 Oct 2024 | 20
Boeing again delays the 777X – the plane that's supposed to turn things around
Also warns it will fire thousands and keep making losses in space
Offbeat14 Oct 2024 | 70
WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly
WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too
Software14 Oct 2024 | 22
First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster
Mechanical chopsticks on the launch tower grab a returning rocket and Starship splashes down on target
Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu
Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals
Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between
Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite?
Top-secret X-37B space plane ready for daring new orbital maneuver
The Space Force craft will attempt aerobraking for the first time
Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation'
AI model safety only goes so far
US and UK govts warn: Russia scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities
in brief Also, phishing's easier over the phone, and your F5 cookies might be unencrypted, and more
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Sword or plowshare? That depends on whether you're an attacker or a defender
INC ransomware rebrands to Lynx – same code, new name, still up to no good
Researchers point to evidence that scumbags visited the strategy boutique
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 10
US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants
Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 10
Ubuntu turns 20: 'Oracular Oriole' shows this old bird's still got plenty of flight
The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability
Software11 Oct 2024 | 44
Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
When the 'cleanup' option stubbornly refuses
OSes11 Oct 2024 | 73
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UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard
Will it also plug into some common sense?
One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support
Microsoft's hardware compatibility gamble still hasn't paid off
Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption
With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine, but only against very short keys
WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked and legal letters fly
WP Engine seems to be excluded from sponsoring events, too
Compression? What's that? And why is the network congested and the PCs frozen?
Who, Me? The only thing worse than a Reply All storm is a Send All storm
Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion
Florida man gets his hands on 'the best ever'
Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em
Opinion How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?
Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw
No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue
Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu
Plus: Infosys stops sending job offer emails; Singtel outage; Australia to require ransomware payment reveals
Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6
Wants 'super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth' datacenters – and more submarine cables
STORIES
Ukraine cyber cops collar man who allegedly hooked citizens up to Russian internet
'Self-taught hacker' facing a possible 15 years in the slammer
Cybersecurity Month11 Oct 2024 | 10
Energy companies told to recharge for AI datacenter surge
Demand for electricity to outstrip supply soon, warns Bain
On-Prem11 Oct 2024 | 23
Why send a message when you can get your Zoom digital video clone to read the script?
We're sure colleagues will find your lookalike, soundalike avatar's missive very warm and human
AI + ML11 Oct 2024 | 28
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Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...
Explainer But what does that mean?
OSes11 Oct 2024 | 53
Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly
WCGW? Plus: Automous Robovan also makes surprise appearance at Cybercab's coming out party
Personal Tech11 Oct 2024 | 213
Keir Starmer hands ex-Darktrace boss investment minister gig
What's harder? Convincing people to invest in a beleaguered security business or a tiny island everybody hates?
Public Sector11 Oct 2024 | 52
BOFH: Boss's quest for AI-generated program ends where it should've begun
Episode 19 With SUM()
BOFH11 Oct 2024 | 86
Techie took five minutes to fix problem Adobe and Microsoft couldn't solve in two weeks
On Call This is why every admin loves to hate Windows
OSes11 Oct 2024 | 146
Jupiter's Great Red Spot wobbles like Jell-o, according to Hubble snaps
Scientists undecided about possible flavor
Science11 Oct 2024 | 17
Tencent builds one NoSQL database to rule all data models
Exclusive Tamed DB sprawl and saved cloudy resources with 'X-Stor'
Databases11 Oct 2024 | 8
Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India's Star Health
Updated Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online
Cyber-crime11 Oct 2024 | 1
Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse
It can also type, so the robo-doctor can heal you and write legibly
Science11 Oct 2024 | 26
Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse
Up to $100 for planning to vote and a public smear – how is this not illegal?
Offbeat10 Oct 2024 | 122
Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers
But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse
Cyber-crime10 Oct 2024 | 2
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