India sets USB-C charging deadline for smartphones
We'll have what Europe's having
Personal Tech29 Dec 2022 | 46
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Qualcomm teases custom Arm-compatible Oryon CPU cores designed by Nuvia
Snapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years
Systems17 Nov 2022 | 13
Arm shells Qualcomm's Snapdragon launch party with latest salvo in license war
Softbank's chip designer warns US giant may lose all of its CPU licenses at this rate
Personal Tech16 Nov 2022 | 9
Qualcomm pushes latest Arm-powered Snapdragon chip amid bitter license fight
Wi-Fi 7, TSMC 4nm, faster GPU, INT4 and AI everywhere – and a rocky relationship with its CPU designer
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 2
Arm sues Qualcomm over custom Nuvia CPU cores, wants designs destroyed
Updated British chip designer unhappy key customer is using lucrative blueprints
Systems31 Aug 2022 | 67
LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder
Your passwords are still safe, biz says
Security25 Aug 2022 | 47
Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installer murders grandmother
Broadband giant says it will appeal jury verdict in negligence case
Cyber-crime27 Jul 2022 | 83
Tories spar over UK's delayed Online Safety Bill
Perfect political pantomime
Personal Tech15 Jul 2022 | 141
Florida man accused of selling fake, broken Cisco devices from China to hospitals, schools, military
Plus, Oracle reportedly mulling laying off staff to cut costs by up to $1b
Networks08 Jul 2022 | 26
Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones
Updated ATMs, 911 calls, and more hit by networking snafu
Networks08 Jul 2022 | 58
Apple emits macOS, iOS, iPadOS patches for 'exploited' security bugs
Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution
Security31 Mar 2022 | 4
Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity
Biz cites 'unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' ... also crippling sanctions
Networks04 Mar 2022 | 61
'Hundreds of computers' in Ukraine hit with wiper malware as conflict continues
Of course you realize, this means war
Security23 Feb 2022 | 116
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel green-lights Mike Lynch's extradition to US to face Autonomy fraud charges
Brit tycoon's bad Friday just got worse
Software28 Jan 2022 | 89
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans
In brief Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more
Security27 Jan 2022 | 20
As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others
Microsoft says cyber-spies linked to Beijing, Tehran are getting busy with security flaw along with world + dog
Security15 Dec 2021 | 11
Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired
Updated Not getting a COVID-19 jab? That's not very googley of you
On-Prem15 Dec 2021 | 170
UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them
Shocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here
Personal Tech15 Dec 2021 | 29
Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild
Patch Tuesday Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders
Security15 Dec 2021 | 8
SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware
Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family
Virtualization02 Dec 2021 | 10
Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens
iFixit welcomes 'tactical achievement' after iGiant offers vague software fix to Face ID block
Personal Tech09 Nov 2021 | 39
AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more
Microsoft cloud first to privately preview Milan-X parts
HPC09 Nov 2021 | 4
Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done
Comment His social network has Meta-stasized
Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 226
Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch
Updated Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
Bootnotes23 Oct 2021 | 56
Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services
Updated 'The internet is a complex system'
Networks30 Sep 2021 | 24
Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit
Some sightseeing, music, gambling, chatting to folks back home – just like a regular roadtrip
Science19 Sep 2021 | 67
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81
From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond
Personal Tech16 Sep 2021 | 216
Semiconductor veterans gather to design customizable, chiplet-based RISC-V server processors
Startup co-founded by former Applied Micro X-Gene execs emerges from stealth
Systems01 Sep 2021 | 8
Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs
Hardware requirements loophole left in
OSes27 Aug 2021 | 91
Jury tells Apple to cough up two days of annual profit in 4G/LTE patent damages retrial
And US trade judge reckons Google ripped off Sonos's tech
Personal Tech14 Aug 2021 | 24
GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication
In brief Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more
Security12 Aug 2021 | 7
Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub
In brief Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more
Security02 Aug 2021 | 25
Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station
Updated You call this a glitch?
Software30 Jul 2021 | 54
Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more
Updated From vid.me to f&*% me?!
Bootnotes22 Jul 2021 | 23
I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google
Veep of cloud devrel exits after 'beyond car crash' all-hands meeting
SaaS20 Jul 2021 | 171
Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group
Now that Pat's got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs
Systems22 Jun 2021 | 6
Intel to put SiFive's latest CPU cores into 7nm dev system to woo customers to RISC-V
Horse Creek platform to 'showcase' new 64-bit P550 processor engine
On-Prem22 Jun 2021 | 13
Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report
Someone's got to keep Altera company
On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 5
Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence
OK, we see where this is going
AI + ML09 Jun 2021 | 31
How to use Google's new dependency mapping tool to find security flaws buried in your projects
Millions of Rust, JavaScript, Go, Maven repositories scanned and visualized
Security04 Jun 2021 | 15
Arm has another 'most powerful CPU to date' – this time, the 64-bit-only Cortex-X2 for laptops and smartphones
Processor core among raft of designs for upcoming devices
Personal Tech25 May 2021 | 7
Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance
Exclusive Acquisition expected to complete in April 2022, empty positions can't be filled until then
On-Prem25 May 2021 | 78
If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can
Updated Unlimited picture-hosting service suddenly gets very limited
Off-Prem12 May 2021 | 6
Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page
Updated It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS
SaaS12 May 2021 | 29
Nasdaq's 32-bit code can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's monster share price
Bug of the week Now that's what we call a Buffett overflow error
Applications07 May 2021 | 106
BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw
Updated Integer overflows leave IoT, OT, medical gear vulnerable to heap-seeking missiles
Security29 Apr 2021 | 52
Digital Ocean springs a leak: Miscreant exploits hole to peep on unlucky customers' billing details for two weeks
First that IPO and now this
Security29 Apr 2021 | 5
You're V1 for me, says Arm: Chip biz's 'highest-performance core' takes aim at supercomputers, AI, anything relying on vector math
Plus the N2, its first Armv9 blueprint
HPC27 Apr 2021 | 2
If you have a QNAP NAS, stop what you're doing right now and install latest updates. Do it before Qlocker gets you
Storage box maker puts customers on red alert after outbreak in ransomware infections
Security22 Apr 2021 | 49
What links AMD CPU guru Jim Keller, an AI chip upstart, and SiFive? This vector-crunching 64-bit RISC-V processor
Stressing the ex in x86
AI + ML22 Apr 2021 |
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world
Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed
Science22 Apr 2021 | 76
Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file
Updated More a declaration of war than turning the tables
Security21 Apr 2021 | 38
Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract worth 'up to $22bn'
Gives Blue Screen of Death a whole new meaning
AI + ML31 Mar 2021 | 23
If you liked AMD's Zen 2 Epyc server chips, you'll probably like its Zen 3 Milan processors
Core counts and clock speed about the same though architecture work said to bring performance boost
Systems15 Mar 2021 | 2
So it appears some of you really don't want us to use the word 'hacker' when we really mean 'criminal'
Register debate The votes have been cast and counted... and it's a landslide
Security09 Mar 2021 | 146
Apple emits patches for iOS, macOS, Safari, etc to stop dodgy websites hijacking people's gadgets
In brief Plus: Chrome also patched, Microsoft and Intel team up for homomorphic encryption, and more
Security09 Mar 2021 | 6
Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC
Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane
Networks23 Feb 2021 | 5
New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website
Promised software may never work as specified, it is feared
Off-Prem12 Feb 2021 | 24
AMD's Lisa Su: Our processor sales are Ryzen faster than the PC market is growing
Chip designer records bumper final quarter and full year, predicts more of the same to come, says supply flow will increase
Personal Tech27 Jan 2021 | 11
Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers
Plus fixes for iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, XCode, iCloud for Windows – and a day after Google disclosed Nork op
Security26 Jan 2021 | 28
Biting the hand that feeds IT
