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
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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
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 | 103
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 | 37
SiFive inches closer to offering a true RISC-V PC: Latest five-core dev board includes PCIe, SSD interfaces
Updated Plus 8GB RAM, USB, gigabit Ethernet, mini-ITX form, etc... and competition from Microchip
29 Oct 2020 | 27
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 | 170
RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it can be used to slurp music
Updated Did 2020 just loop round to 1999?
23 Oct 2020 | 110
If you suddenly can't print to your HP Printer from your Mac, you're not alone: Code security cert snafu blamed
Updated Driver software snubbed by macOS 10.15, 10.14, Amazon Music, too
23 Oct 2020 | 68
Iran sent threatening pro-Trump emails to American Democrats, Russia close behind, says US intelligence
Updated No, say it ain't so, maga_christ9000@post.ir
22 Oct 2020 | 82
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 | 1
If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
Updated And the world breathed a sigh of relief?
15 Oct 2020 | 54
Imagination touts next series of GPU cores aimed at cloud server acceleration ...and cars, mobile, IoT
If no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The B-Team
13 Oct 2020 | 1
