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
12 May 2021 | 6
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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
12 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
07 May 2021 | 98
BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw
Integer overflows leave IoT, OT, medical gear vulnerable to heap-seeking missiles
29 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
29 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
27 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
22 Apr 2021 | 47
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
22 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
22 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
21 Apr 2021 | 38
Pentagon pal Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract somehow worth 'up to $22bn'
Gives Blue Screen of Death a whole new meaning
31 Mar 2021 | 22
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
15 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
09 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
09 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
23 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
12 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
27 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
26 Jan 2021 | 28
It's 2021 and you can hijack a Cisco SD-WAN deployment with malicious IP traffic and a buffer overflow. Patch now
And also fix up these other holes that can be exploited via HTTP requests, SQL injection, etc
22 Jan 2021 | 10
And just like that, Amazon Web Services forked Elasticsearch, Kibana. Was that part of the plan, Elastic?
Fork that noise, says cloud giant amid licensing drama
22 Jan 2021 | 46
President Biden selects Jessica Rosenworcel to head up FCC as acting chairwoman
Net neutrality, internet-for-students advocate awaits Senate confirmation
21 Jan 2021 | 20
Four or so things we found interesting about Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888, its latest 5G chip for high-end Androids
Samsung 5nm, Cortex-X1, integrated... wait, let's not give it all away
02 Dec 2020 | 35
Comcast to impose 1.2TB-a-month broadband download limits across more of America from next year
Plus or minus some caveats
24 Nov 2020 | 54
Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out
Ring, Echo owners get emails explaining how to switch off incoming functionality
24 Nov 2020 | 115
