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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

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

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

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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

Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract 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's 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

Imagination touts next series of GPU cores aimed at cloud server acceleration ...and cars, mobile, IoT

Welp, it is the season for silicon mega-mergers... AMD rumored to be in advanced talks to buy FPGA slinger Xilinx for $30bn+

Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit

Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers

Arm hasn't given up on self-driving car brains – its new Cortex-A78AE is going into Nvidia's Orin chip, for a start

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

What did they do – twist his Arm? Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased

Is today's AI yesterday's software routines with better PR? We argued over it, you voted on it. And the winner is...

Psst, you want us to design you an Arm chip? 'Cause we can do that, says RISC-V processor darling SiFive

If you want to design and make your own 5nm high-end system-on-chip, Marvell's offering ASIC-as-a-service

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Not anymore. Wants to offload it to Softbank

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

Ampere smacks the ball over the net, back at Marvell: Our Altra Max cloud processor will have 128 Arm cores

Qualcomm looks to hook the masses to 5G... if it arrives: Snapdragon 690, X51 modem to power mid-range gear

Living up to its 'un-carrier' slogan, T-Mobile US stops carrying incoming calls, data in nationwide outage

ZFS co-creator boots 'slave' out of OpenZFS codebase, says 'casual use' of term is 'unnecessary reference to a painful experience'

Intel outside: Chip king Keller quits x86 giant immediately 'for personal reasons'

Arm goes off road... map: 5nm Cortex-X1 touted for phone, tablet, laptop processors needing Apple-level oomph

We maintained or increased IT spending, say seven-in-ten pros, execs polled mid-crisis. PS: We love Microsoft most

Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors

Arm dumps risk for CISC – Chip Indies Skip Costs: Early-stage startups can pay $0 to access CPU, GPU blueprints

Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking

Ampere's server chip has 80 Arm CPU cores? Yeah, well, our ThunderX3 will have 96 with 384 threads, says Marvell

Xilinx's high-end Versal FPGA is like a designer handbag. If you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it

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

Late $440m Christmas present for HP: Judge triples damages windfall from Quanta in CD-ROM drive price-fix showdown

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