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*?
14 Oct 2019 | 74
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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
08 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
01 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
29 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
27 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
26 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
26 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
20 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
19 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
16 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
15 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
13 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
07 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
16 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
27 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
27 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
25 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
22 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
18 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'
30 Apr 2019 | 22
NASA's first all-woman spacewalk outside ISS cancelled – due to lack of spacesuits that fit
In space, no one can hear you scream... with frustration
26 Mar 2019 | 69
US prosecutors whack another three charges on list against ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch over $11bn HP biz gobble
What interesting timing
23 Mar 2019 | 25
Hey, US taxpayers. Filed your taxes? Good, good. $500m of it is going on an Intel-Cray exascale boffinry supercomputer
Well, that Knights Hill 2018 dream didn't work out, so let's shoot for 2021 instead
18 Mar 2019 | 23
It sounds like a new train line, but no: Compute Express Link is PCIe 5.0 server CPU-accelerator glue from Intel and pals
Oh, compute, not commute. Got it. Version 1.0 of spec ratified, available shortly
11 Mar 2019 | 7
