Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch
Updated Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
Bootnotes23 Oct 2021 | 56
Chris is The Register's Editor in Chief. He primarily covers semiconductors, security, and software development. Chris has more than two decades of experience in online and print media, and has a master's degree in electronic engineering. Prior to joining The Register's Situation Publishing in 2011, Chris was a production journalist and news reporter in the British newspaper industry.
Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services
Updated 'The internet is a complex system'
Networks30 Sep 2021 | 24
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
Science19 Sep 2021 | 67
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81
From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond
Personal Tech16 Sep 2021 | 216
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
Systems01 Sep 2021 | 8
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
OSes27 Aug 2021 | 91
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
Personal Tech14 Aug 2021 | 24
GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication
In brief Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more
Security12 Aug 2021 | 7
Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub
In brief Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more
Security02 Aug 2021 | 23
Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station
Updated You call this a glitch?
Software30 Jul 2021 | 54
Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more
Updated From vid.me to f&*% me?!
Bootnotes22 Jul 2021 | 23
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
SaaS20 Jul 2021 | 171
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
Systems22 Jun 2021 | 6
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
On-Prem22 Jun 2021 | 13
Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report
Someone's got to keep Altera company
On-Prem10 Jun 2021 | 5
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
AI + ML09 Jun 2021 | 30
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
Security04 Jun 2021 | 15
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
Personal Tech25 May 2021 | 7
Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance
Exclusive Acquisition expected to complete in April 2022, empty positions can't be filled until then
On-Prem25 May 2021 | 78
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
Off-Prem12 May 2021 | 6
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
SaaS12 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
Applications07 May 2021 | 106
BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw
Updated Integer overflows leave IoT, OT, medical gear vulnerable to heap-seeking missiles
Security29 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
Security29 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
HPC27 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
Security22 Apr 2021 | 49
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
AI + ML22 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
Science22 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
Security21 Apr 2021 | 38
Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract worth 'up to $22bn'
Gives Blue Screen of Death a whole new meaning
AI + ML31 Mar 2021 | 23
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
Systems15 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
Security09 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
Security09 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
Networks23 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
Off-Prem12 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
Personal Tech27 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
Security26 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
Security22 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
SaaS22 Jan 2021 | 46
President Biden selects Jessica Rosenworcel to head up FCC as acting chairwoman
Net neutrality, internet-for-students advocate awaits Senate confirmation
Networks21 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
Personal Tech02 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
Networks24 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
Edge + IoT24 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
Security23 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
Science19 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
Science29 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
Security28 Oct 2020 | 170
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
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
