In brief
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans
Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more
27 Jan 2022 23:41 | 2
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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
If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can
Unlimited picture-hosting service suddenly gets very limited
12 May 2021 18:58 | 6
Updated
Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page
It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS
12 May 2021 02:10 | 29
Bug of the week
Nasdaq's 32-bit code can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's monster share price
Now that's what we call a Buffett overflow error
07 May 2021 11:24 | 106
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
