Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice
Linux contributors told to sort out their grammar lest they be actively corrected
Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not entirely free
Updated
And now SpaceX clarifies special promotion
AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer
First-ever awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence
You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs
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They put more risk in a single box than most of us are equipped to handle
Post Office CEO tells inquiry leadership was in 'dream world' over Horizon scandal
Hired in 2019, he claims the recruitment failed to mention ongoing litigation
Public Sector10 Oct 2024 |
Hold my Pimms! Wimbledon turns to tech for line-ball calls
Humans dumped by famously fusty tennis tournament
Personal Tech10 Oct 2024 |
Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'
Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 3
You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’
Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides
Devops10 Oct 2024 | 6
OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 |
Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS
31 million users' usernames, email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords are out there
Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 5
Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware
USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 7
Deno 2.0 looks to backward compatibility to move forward
Modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript plays nicer with Node.js
Devops09 Oct 2024 | 2
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
Smart TVs are spying on everyone
Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 26
Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions
Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 4
Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications
On the bright side, auroras may dazzle skies as far south as mid-latitudes
Science09 Oct 2024 | 27
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected
One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets
Cyber-crime09 Oct 2024 | 11
Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators - another win for AI
Let’s just hope they don’t give the literature award to a bot, too
Science09 Oct 2024 | 4
US DoJ wades into Realtek lawsuit that accuses MediaTek of patent abuse
Fabless chip shop alleged to be hiring 'litigation hit men' to kneecap rival
Legal09 Oct 2024 | 2
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CYBERSECURITY MONTH
American Water rinsed in cyberattack, turns off app
CISO It's still safe to drink, top provider tells us
Brits hate how big tech handles their data, but can't be bothered to do much about it
Privacy Managing the endless stream of cookie banners leaves little energy for anything else
Chinese cyberspies reportedly breached Verizon, AT&T, Lumen
Telcoms Salt Typhoon may have accessed court-ordered wiretaps and US internet traffic
Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds
Privacy 'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer'
Ransomware crew infects 100+ orgs monthly with new MedusaLocker variant
Exclusive Crooks 'like a sysadmin, with a malicious slant'
If Dell's Qualcomm-powered Copilot+ PC is typical of the genre, other PCs are toast
Desktop Tourism Despite amazing battery life and lovely speed, this one has flaws that may annoy
Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect
'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi'
Offbeat09 Oct 2024 | 23
CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag
Backs RHEL-compatible distro with indemnification and update guarantees
OSes09 Oct 2024 | 9
Microsoft cleans up hot mess of Patch Tuesday preview
Go forth and install your important security fixes
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 3
Cognizant discriminated against non-Indian workers in H-1B visa case, US jury finds
IT service giant denies claims, will appeal against verdict
Systems09 Oct 2024 | 6
Ransomware gang Trinity joins pile of scumbags targeting healthcare
As if hospitals and clinics didn't have enough to worry about
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 5
Uncle Sam may force Google to sell Chrome browser, or Android OS
Tech giant snaps back, calls DoJ proposals on splitting up Alphabet and more 'government overreach'
Networks09 Oct 2024 | 25
Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive
Big emphasis on photos in mobile app
Storage09 Oct 2024 | 15
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
OpenAI previews major update to ChatGPT visual interface for writing and coding
Python 3.13 delayed by ‘drastic change’ removal of incremental garbage collector
UK Regulatory Innovation Office vows to slash red tape – but we've heard it all before
Comment The real issue is a reluctance to invest
Public Sector09 Oct 2024 | 32
Game of phones: Voda-Three merger left rivals dialing for help
BT and some MVNOs very much against union, VMO2 more relaxed because of spectrum deal
Networks09 Oct 2024 | 9
Thunderbird for Android is go – at least the beta is
A traditional-style rich email client – but for tablets
Applications09 Oct 2024 | 27
Copilot's crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again
Opinion Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data?
AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 23
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Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed
Video 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, new Supermarionation is GO!
Offbeat09 Oct 2024 | 71
Supermicro crams 18 GPUs into a 3U AI server that's a little slow by design
Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center
Systems09 Oct 2024 | 2
OpenAI appoints international expansion boss
Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside
AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 4
MediaTek enters the 4th Dimensity with 3nm octa-core 9400 smartphone brains
Still sticking with Arm and not taking RISC-Vs
Systems09 Oct 2024 | 3
Asian crime gangs are growing – fast – thanks to AI and other tech
UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy'
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 7
LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem
Artificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thing
AI + ML09 Oct 2024 | 21
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Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI
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Why Win11 24H2 is a big yawn for developers
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W11 user hurt by the KB5043145 update? Microsoft offers a way out
Patches Might be best to give it a miss for now
Windows users still living in the past face forced update, like it or not
And also 22H2 and 21H2 holdouts about to be dragged to 23H2
Babbage boffin Ada Lovelace honored for computer science contributions
Penned Analytical Engine algorithm in her youth, imagine if she'd lived past 36
TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators
Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4
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Incumbent congressman not turning up to debates? Train an AI on his press releases
Hallucinations, made-up facts... and that's just the human politicians
AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 9
Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not entirely free
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Networks08 Oct 2024 | 86
Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer
How does 90 exaFLOPS sound?
HPC08 Oct 2024 |
DoE awards next-gen nuclear fuel contracts backwards
'Deconversion' can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD
Science08 Oct 2024 | 2
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Personal Tech08 Oct 2024 | 36
Happy birthday, Putin – you've been pwned
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XCP-NG thanks Broadcom for increased interest, swipes Citrix for not helping build an alternative
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Samsung apologizes for bad financial performance
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Google brings better bricking to Androids, to curtail crims
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