RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it's used to slurp music
Updated Did 2020 just loop round to 1999?
Software23 Oct 2020 | 110
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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
OSes23 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
Security22 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
Science21 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?
Personal Tech15 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
SaaS13 Oct 2020 | 1
Welp, it is the season for silicon mega-mergers... AMD rumored to be in advanced talks to buy FPGA slinger Xilinx for $30bn+
Let the chips fall where they may
Science09 Oct 2020 | 17
Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit
Totally not-safe-for-production 64-bit Arm hypervisor port released for evaluation, sell the SmartNIC idea, etc
Virtualization07 Oct 2020 | 6
Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers
Video 5U box can reach up to six quadrillion INT8 calculations per second, it is claimed
AI + ML29 Sep 2020 | 8
Arm hasn't given up on self-driving car brains – its new Cortex-A78AE is going into Nvidia's Orin chip, for a start
Yes, that Nvidia
AI + ML29 Sep 2020 | 6
Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind
In brief Plus: Machine-learning software and another Power processor core opened up by IBM
AI + ML19 Sep 2020 | 6
What did they do – twist his Arm? Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased
Vector-math processor core for high-perf computing promised, too
Science17 Sep 2020 | 15
Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...
Register Debate Spoiler alert: Not that machine-learning salesperson
AI + ML11 Sep 2020 | 37
Psst, you want us to design you an Arm chip? 'Cause we can do that, says RISC-V processor darling SiFive
ISA-agnostic OpenFive unit will focus on custom SoCs while parent will crack on with CPU blueprints
Science17 Aug 2020 | 8
If you want to design and make your own 5nm high-end system-on-chip, Marvell's offering ASIC-as-a-service
Yes, it's going to cost a bob or two, but the option's there
Networks23 Jul 2020 | 10
Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Not anymore. Wants to offload it to Softbank
Microprocessor core designer says it just wants to focus on designing microprocessor cores
Edge + IoT07 Jul 2020 | 1
If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free
Plus: IBM emits BlueGene/Q CPU blueprints – and 'fastest' open-source RISC-V core emerges
Science03 Jul 2020 | 34
Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores
That's 32 more than you... when it ships... next year
Systems23 Jun 2020 | 8
Qualcomm looks to hook the masses to 5G... if it arrives: Snapdragon 690, X51 modem to power mid-range gear
That's Sub-6GHz 5G alongside octa-core processor, GPU and AI units
Personal Tech17 Jun 2020 | 5
Living up to its 'un-carrier' slogan, T-Mobile US stops carrying incoming calls, data in nationwide outage
Updated Welp, that's one way to block those annoying spam robots
Networks15 Jun 2020 | 25
ZFS co-creator boots 'slave' out of OpenZFS codebase, says 'casual use' of term is 'unnecessary reference to a painful experience'
No breakages, no change in operation, no problem
Software12 Jun 2020 | 158
Intel outside: Chip king Keller quits x86 giant immediately 'for personal reasons'
'We wish him and his family all the best for the future' says US mega-corp
On-Prem11 Jun 2020 | 13
Arm goes off road... map: 5nm Cortex-X1 touted for phone, tablet, laptop processors needing Apple-level oomph
Meanwhile, A78, Mali-G78 and Ethos-N78 announced, too
Science26 May 2020 | 3
We maintained or increased IT spending, say seven-in-ten pros, execs polled mid-crisis. PS: We love Microsoft most
Coronavirus focused minds on desktop kit, networking, security, cloud, Register reader survey finds
SaaS12 May 2020 | 7
Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors
10th-generation Core additions land with up to 10 CPU cores, 5.3GHz max
Personal Tech01 May 2020 | 41
Arm dumps risk for CISC – Chip Indies Skip Costs: Early-stage startups can pay $0 to access CPU, GPU blueprints
Who said open-source alternatives? Haha, no one here said it, you must have imagined it
Science29 Apr 2020 | 2
Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking
And few worried about security – are they right?
On-Prem31 Mar 2020 | 47
Ampere's server chip has 80 Arm CPU cores? Yeah, well, our ThunderX3 will have 96 with 384 threads, says Marvell
Plus: Intel ditches forthcoming Cooper Lake single, dual-socket 14nm Xeons from its roadmap
Systems18 Mar 2020 |
Xilinx's high-end Versal FPGA is like a designer handbag. If you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it
Premium chip is 7nm, 4 Arm CPU cores, up to 7.4 million logic cells, multi-Tbps networking and crypto
Networks10 Mar 2020 | 18
Is that a typo? Oh, it's not a typo. Ampere really is touting an 80-core 64-bit 7nm Arm server processor dubbed Altra
Meanwhile, Marvell offers a 36-core chip, Xilinx whips out an FPGA-based SmartNIC
Systems03 Mar 2020 | 21
Late $440m Christmas present for HP: Judge triples damages windfall from Quanta in CD-ROM drive price-fix showdown
Thanks to America's antitrust laws
Storage04 Jan 2020 | 21
RISC-V Xmas gifts: SiFive emits vector-enabled cores, Western Digital teases new SweRVs, VxWorks hugs ISA, Samsung rolls it into 5G...
Updated More stuff that'll get under Arm's skin
Science10 Dec 2019 | 4
Following the wild, roaring success of its Snapdragon 8cx Arm laptop chip, Qualcomm's back with the 8c, 7c
Looking forward to seeing these in, well, anything would be nice
OSes05 Dec 2019 | 7
In a touching tribute to its $800m-ish antitrust fine, Qualcomm tears wraps off Snapdragon 865 chip for 5G phones
While supremo predicts mmWave deployments by 2021, everyone moving to the cloud
Science04 Dec 2019 | 17
We took a shot every time Qualcomm said 5G, AI or mobile gaming in its Snapdragon 865, 765 system-on-chip launch...
...nd its nt evevn lunchteim yt
Science03 Dec 2019 | 18
A little product renaming here, a little RISC-V magic there, some extra performance, and voila – Imagination's 10th-gen PowerVR is born
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years
Science03 Dec 2019 | 12
Intel's back. Can't keep it down. Back with 5G. Back in the game, back with modems... that have 'MediaTek' written on them
Plus: AMD teases third-gen 64-core Threadripper and more
Networks25 Nov 2019 | 10
A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer
SC19 If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again
HPC18 Nov 2019 | 26
Bezos DDoS'd: Amazon Web Services' DNS systems knackered by hours-long cyber-attack
Updated Distributed assault hampering connectivity for websites, apps, customers are warned
SaaS22 Oct 2019 | 36
UK govt snubs Intel, seeks second-gen AMD Epyc processors for 28PFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer
HPE's Cray hits 80-million-quid target to build boffinry beast
HPC15 Oct 2019 | 36
Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)
All it takes is -u#-1 ... Wh%& t#e fsck*?
OSes14 Oct 2019 | 73
Talk about a calculated RISC: If you think you can do a better job than Arm at designing CPUs, now's your chance
TechCon RISC-V, accelerator pressure leads to customizable Armv8-M instructions
Science08 Oct 2019 | 41
Hate Verilog? Detest VHDL? You're not the only one. Xilinx rolls out easier-to-use free FPGA programming tools after developer outcry
Vitis toolkit for the rest of us, coming soon, allegedly
Science01 Oct 2019 | 20
Get your royalty-free soft-core OpenPOWER processor core blueprints here. Extra, extra – read all about it
Plus: Intel slips first 10nm Agilex FPGAs to select lucky customers
On-Prem29 Aug 2019 | 11
Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021
VMworld CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry
Virtualization27 Aug 2019 | 13
'Not productive for our business'... Michael Dell urges end to US-China tariff tit-for-tat spat
VMworld CEO says pressure is being applied on government officials behind the scenes
On-Prem26 Aug 2019 | 30
Imagine Siri as your IT help desk. Too scary? OK, imagine PAYG on-prem IT. Oh, too much? How about everything on Kubernetes?
VMworld Wait, come back. Stop screaming. We're only reading out VMware's news
Virtualization26 Aug 2019 | 3
IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying next door, decides it will make its Power CPU ISA free, too
Big Blue says it will open OpenPower, power next-gen chips in China, er, anywhere
On-Prem20 Aug 2019 | 40
Behold, the quantum lawsuit in which both sides claim victory: Rimini St fails to bag $30m refund from Oracle
Order banning any further infringement stays, as does Big Red's legal bill
Software19 Aug 2019 | 4
'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha
ICO wants to know if AI surveillance systems in central London are legal
AI + ML16 Aug 2019 | 43
Talk about keeping it in the family: Dell-owned Pivotal shares rocket after Dell-owned VMware mulls gobbling it up
Stock price back up to, er, just below IPO level
Virtualization15 Aug 2019 | 4
Look at me. Look at me. I'm the El Capitan now: Cray to build US govt's $600m cray-cray exascale nuke app super
1.5 EFLOPS monster will chew through simulations, modeling, and more, when it, fingers crossed, spins up in 2023
HPC13 Aug 2019 | 7
Xilinx FPGA. Nvidia GPU storage. 56-core Intel Xeons versus AMD next-gen Epyc. It's all kicking off in data-center world
Roundup Your quick summary of news from the server room
On-Prem07 Aug 2019 | 5
Dear chip designers: It will no longer cost you an Arm and a leg to use these CPU cores (well, not at first, anyway...)
Take a RISC, not a RISC-V, with us, says Softbank's processor design house
Science16 Jul 2019 | 16
It's all in the RISC: Arm legs it to Computex with a head full of Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPUs
That's enough body language puns
Personal Tech27 May 2019 | 19
When two tribes go to war... Intel, AMD tease new chips at Computex: Your spin-free summary
2nd-gen Epyc, 3rd-gen Ryzen 7 and 9 processors, Navi GPUs, Intel 10nm CPUs, etc
Systems27 May 2019 | 63
Millions of personal files exposed by insurance biz, serial web hacker strikes again, and more from infosec land
Roundup Your two-minute guide to all the other security news this week
Security25 May 2019 | 17
Bug-hunter reveals another 'make me admin' Windows 10 zero-day – and vows: 'There's more where that came from'
Updated Vulnerability can be exploited to turn users into system stars, no patch available yet
OSes22 May 2019 | 101
CIA traitor spy thrown in the clink for selling secrets to China. Stack Overflow, TeamViewer admit: We were hacked...
Roundup ...And more from the world of infosec this week
Security18 May 2019 | 27
Extortionist hacks IT provider used by the stars of tech and big biz, leaks customer info after ransom goes unpaid
'Many companies pay us for our work, and we do not publish data and help them to eliminate vulnerabilities'
Security30 Apr 2019 | 22
