Security Russia's invasion of Ukraine tears open political rift between cybercriminals Is the West OK when the gun points the other way? 15 Mar 2022 | 32
AI + ML Googlers and co offer video dataset-generating Kubric How your computer-vision model learned to stop worrying and love the Python 15 Mar 2022 | 1
Databases MongoDB to terminate Russian SaaS accounts No service for NoSQL users contrasts with continuous clouds from other players 15 Mar 2022 | 11
Systems Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff – about 1,000 people Move along, nothing to see here, totally not slimming down ahead of IPO – or a second IPO in China 15 Mar 2022 | 58
Security NASA in 'serious jeopardy' due to big black hole in security Auditor finds space agency defends classified info well, isn't paying attention to valuable unclassified data 15 Mar 2022 | 15
Applications Apple, Google urge monopoly watchdog to leave them alone Competitors and web developers would prefer to see mobile market rules rewritten 15 Mar 2022 | 15
On-Prem Think tank: US will need to import semiconductor talent to fill new factories Engineers at TSMC and Samsung look pretty good, so make sure they can get visas 15 Mar 2022 | 11
Analysis Another data-leaking Spectre bug found, smashes Intel, Arm defenses Your processor design fell off the vulnerability tree and hit every branch on the way down 15 Mar 2022 | 21
Feature Pioneer 10 turns 50: Remembering humankind's first jaunt to Jupiter We sent it off 'to tweak a dragon's tail, and it did that and more' 15 Mar 2022 | 24
OSes Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation DIY distro might not be the best place to start, but you'll learn buckets using it 15 Mar 2022 | 24
Databases IBM Cloudant pulls plan to fund new foundational layer for CouchDB Apache project mulls options for next big upgrade as Big Blue focuses on 3.x iterations 15 Mar 2022 |
Networks Nominet suspends 'single digit' number of Russian dot-UK domain registrars Does not wish to 'profit' from 'commercial arrangements' in Russia 15 Mar 2022 | 15
Systems Startups bag billions to fill gaps left by chip world giants Not every hole is x86, CUDA, or Arm shaped 15 Mar 2022 | 4
Security UK criminal defense lawyer hadn't patched when ransomware hit Brit solicitor fined after admitting it took 5 months to install critical update 15 Mar 2022 | 13
AI + ML Research finds data poisoning can't defeat facial recognition Someone can just code an antidote and you're back to square one 15 Mar 2022 | 9
Updated Microsoft slides ads into Windows Insiders' File Explorer It was a mistake, vendor tells The Register 15 Mar 2022 | 104
Networks Telecoms growth forecast for 2022 may be optimistic Analyst view: 4Q21 drop plus strains from war mean component shortages drag on 15 Mar 2022 |
Security Russian demand for VPNs skyrockets by 2,692% Virtual iron curtains are a lot harder to keep free of holes 15 Mar 2022 | 30
Off-Prem Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany x86 giant also expands manufacturing in Ireland, plus R&D and packaging across Europe 15 Mar 2022 | 62
Security Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus Russian biz founder calls it 'an insult' 15 Mar 2022 | 97
Systems AMD unveils first CPU with 3D V-Cache tech, cheaper Ryzens Sub-$299 Zen 3 desktop chips throw wrench into Intel wheelhouse 15 Mar 2022 | 14
PaaS + IaaS Vultr aims at the big clouds with new virtual machines Rolls out first Epyc products the same week Google announces cloud infra price rise 15 Mar 2022 |
Security Huge DDoS attack temporarily kicks Israeli government sites offline A state of emergency is declared as officials assess the damage and look for culprits 15 Mar 2022 |
Security UK Supreme Court snubs Assange anti-extradition bid Home Secretary ponders putting WikiLeaker on one-way US flight 15 Mar 2022 | 34
Security SentinelOne pays $617m for identity biz Attivo Networks Security consolidation du jour 15 Mar 2022 |
Security Microsoft Azure DevOps revives TLS 1.0/1.1 with rollback Planned deprecation didn't go as planned, cloud biz aims to try again at the end of March 15 Mar 2022 | 4
Security OpenSSL patches crash-me bug triggered by rogue certs Bad data can throw vulnerable apps and services for an infinite loop 15 Mar 2022 | 3
Devops Kubernetes container runtime CRI-O has make-me-root flaw Cr8escape priv-escalation bug opens the door to cluster takeovers 15 Mar 2022 | 1