Chris Williams

Security

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

15 Dec 2021 23:31 | 11

Updated

Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired

Not getting a COVID-19 jab? That's not very googley of you

15 Dec 2021 19:01 | 170

Personal Tech

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

15 Dec 2021 08:24 | 29

Patch Tuesday

Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild

Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders

15 Dec 2021 03:29 | 8

Virtualization

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

02 Dec 2021 14:00 | 10

Personal Tech

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

09 Nov 2021 22:56 | 39

HPC

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

09 Nov 2021 00:02 | 4

Comment

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

His social network has Meta-stasized

29 Oct 2021 00:48 | 226

Updated

Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code

23 Oct 2021 00:38 | 56

Updated

Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services

'The internet is a complex system'

30 Sep 2021 20:53 | 24

Science

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

19 Sep 2021 05:30 | 67

Personal Tech

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond

16 Sep 2021 19:46 | 216

Servers

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

01 Sep 2021 13:00 | 8

OSes

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

27 Aug 2021 20:25 | 91

Personal Tech

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

14 Aug 2021 02:20 | 24

In brief

GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication

Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more

12 Aug 2021 23:20 | 7

In brief

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more

02 Aug 2021 18:58 | 25

Updated

Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station

You call this a glitch?

30 Jul 2021 20:09 | 54

Updated

Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more

From vid.me to f&*% me?!

22 Jul 2021 23:30 | 23

SaaS

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

20 Jul 2021 00:17 | 171

Servers

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

22 Jun 2021 21:51 | 6

On-Prem

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

22 Jun 2021 13:00 | 13

On-Prem

Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report

Someone's got to keep Altera company

10 Jun 2021 21:20 | 5

AI + ML

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

09 Jun 2021 15:00 | 31

Security

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

04 Jun 2021 02:59 | 15

Personal Tech

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

25 May 2021 13:00 | 7

Exclusive

Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance

Acquisition expected to complete in April 2022, empty positions can't be filled until then

25 May 2021 07:29 | 78

Updated

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 22:03 | 52

Security

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 05:05 | 5

HPC

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 13:00 | 2

Security

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 21:57 | 48

AI + ML

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 13:00 |

Science

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 01:01 | 76

Updated

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file

More a declaration of war than turning the tables

21 Apr 2021 22:04 | 38

AI + ML

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 22:48 | 23

Servers

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 21:50 | 2

Register debate

So it appears some of you really don't want us to use the word 'hacker' when we really mean 'criminal'

The votes have been cast and counted... and it's a landslide

09 Mar 2021 11:00 | 146

In brief

Apple emits patches for iOS, macOS, Safari, etc to stop dodgy websites hijacking people's gadgets

Plus: Chrome also patched, Microsoft and Intel team up for homomorphic encryption, and more

09 Mar 2021 01:07 | 6

Networks

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 14:00 | 5

Off-Prem

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 19:49 | 24

Personal Tech

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 03:06 | 11

Security

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 20:45 | 28

Security

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 07:04 | 10

SaaS

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 00:50 | 46

Networks

President Biden selects Jessica Rosenworcel to head up FCC as acting chairwoman

Net neutrality, internet-for-students advocate awaits Senate confirmation

21 Jan 2021 21:55 | 20

Personal Tech

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 15:00 | 35

Networks

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 22:51 | 54

Edge + IoT

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 20:46 | 115

Security

Apple's global security boss accused of bribing cops with 200 free iPads in exchange for concealed gun permits

Exec, two officers, one other charged

23 Nov 2020 21:17 | 103

Science

BBC picks SiFive RISC-V chip for Doctor Who programming-for-kids kit – with Jodie Whittaker narrating

Time Lord tapped to introduce youngsters to hardware and coding

19 Nov 2020 14:00 | 37

Updated

SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces

Plus 8GB RAM, USB, gigabit Ethernet, mini-ITX form, etc... and competition from Microchip

29 Oct 2020 15:30 | 27

Security

Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'

Well, that narrows down the list of suspects to just a few billion people

28 Oct 2020 02:29 | 170

Updated

RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music

Did 2020 just loop round to 1999?

23 Oct 2020 23:23 | 110

Updated

If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed

Driver software snubbed by macOS 10.15, 10.14, Amazon Music, too

23 Oct 2020 20:42 | 68

Updated

Iran sent threatening pro-Trump emails to American Democrats, Russia close behind, says US intelligence

No, say it ain't so, maga_christ9000@post.ir

22 Oct 2020 02:03 | 82

Science

SiFive reminds everyone you don't always need to offload vector math: Here's a RISC-V CPU that can process it, too

VIU75 core is 64-bit, runs Linux, supports RV vector extension

21 Oct 2020 15:30 | 1

Updated

If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish

And the world breathed a sigh of relief?

15 Oct 2020 22:00 | 54

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As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others

Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired

UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them

Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild

SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware

Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens

AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more

Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done

Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch

Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services

Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit

RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81

Semiconductor veterans gather to design customizable, chiplet-based RISC-V server processors

Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs

Jury tells Apple to cough up two days of annual profit in 4G/LTE patent damages retrial

GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station

Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more

I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google

Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group

Intel to put SiFive's latest CPU cores into 7nm dev system to woo customers to RISC-V

Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report

Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence

How to use Google's new dependency mapping tool to find security flaws buried in your projects

Arm has another 'most powerful CPU to date' – this time, the 64-bit-only Cortex-X2 for laptops and smartphones

Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance

If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can

Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page

Nasdaq's 32-bit code can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's monster share price

BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw

Digital Ocean springs a leak: Miscreant exploits hole to peep on unlucky customers' billing details for two weeks

You're V1 for me, says Arm: Chip biz's 'highest-performance core' takes aim at supercomputers, AI, anything relying on vector math

If you have a QNAP NAS, stop what you're doing right now and install latest updates. Do it before Qlocker gets you

What links AMD CPU guru Jim Keller, an AI chip upstart, and SiFive? This vector-crunching 64-bit RISC-V processor

Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world

Signal app's Moxie says it's possible to sabotage Cellebrite's phone-probing tools with booby-trapped file

Pentagon pal Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract somehow worth 'up to $22bn'

If you liked AMD's Zen 2 Epyc server chips, you'll probably like its Zen 3 Milan processors

So it appears some of you really don't want us to use the word 'hacker' when we really mean 'criminal'

Apple emits patches for iOS, macOS, Safari, etc to stop dodgy websites hijacking people's gadgets

Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC

New Jersey blames Microsoft for weeks of outages, glitches plaguing coronavirus vaccine sign-up website

AMD's Lisa Su: Our processor sales are Ryzen faster than the PC market is growing

Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers

It's 2021 and you can hijack a Cisco SD-WAN deployment with malicious IP traffic and a buffer overflow. Patch now

And just like that, Amazon Web Services forked Elasticsearch, Kibana. Was that part of the plan, Elastic?

President Biden selects Jessica Rosenworcel to head up FCC as acting chairwoman

Four or so things we found interesting about Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888, its latest 5G chip for high-end Androids

Comcast to impose 1.2TB-a-month broadband download limits across more of America from next year

Amazon's ad-hoc Ring, Echo mesh network can mooch off your neighbors' Wi-Fi if needed – and it's opt-out

Apple's global security boss accused of bribing cops with 200 free iPads in exchange for concealed gun permits

BBC picks SiFive RISC-V chip for Doctor Who programming-for-kids kit – with Jodie Whittaker narrating

SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces

Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'

RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music

If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed

Iran sent threatening pro-Trump emails to American Democrats, Russia close behind, says US intelligence

SiFive reminds everyone you don't always need to offload vector math: Here's a RISC-V CPU that can process it, too

If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish

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