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Roundup

WannaCry-hero Hutchins' trial date set, Microsoft readies Google's Spectre V2 fix for Windows 10, Coinhive axed, and more

PS: Update Adobe ColdFusion, Cisco WebEx Meetings, Nvidia drivers with security fixes

02 Mar 2019 11:14 | 18

On-Prem

Here's why your next network switch, storage box, or 5G gateway may do more Arm than good: E1, N1 data-center CPU cores aim at future kit

First-ever pure-64-bit-only Armv8-A SMT server processor brains may lure chip designers

20 Feb 2019 14:03 | 1

Edge + IoT

The Lance Arm-strong of performance-enhanced CPUs: Armv8.1-M arch jams vector math into super-microcontrollers

Neon-style tech pumps Helium balloon in future gadgets

14 Feb 2019 14:00 | 7

Exclusive

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts

Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis, and more said to be up for grabs for $$$s in BTC

11 Feb 2019 23:55 | 48

Final update

Trying to log into Office 365 right now? It's a coin flip, says Microsoft: Service goes TITSUP as Azure portal wobbles

Total Inability To Support Users' Passwords

29 Jan 2019 22:32 | 73

AI + ML

Amazon Mime: We train (badly) an AI love bot using divorce bombshell Bezos' alleged sexts to his new girlfriend

Why? For science!

11 Jan 2019 08:19 | 53

Roundup

Huawei's 7nm 64-core Arm server brain, fresh Intel desktop Core chips, IBM tapping Samsung for Power10, and more

Your handy guide to processor-related bits and bytes

08 Jan 2019 05:35 | 5

Site News

Happy new year, readers. Yes, we have threaded comments, an image-lite mode, and more...

Welcome back, can't wait to crack on, oh, it's Friday already

04 Jan 2019 07:53 | 174

Networks

US states join watchdog probing CenturyLink's Xmas data center outage that screwed 911 system

TITSUP network card fingered for dropped calls (that's a Total Inability To Send Usable Packets)

02 Jan 2019 21:19 | 15

Roundup

Your two-minute infosec roundup: Drone arrests, Alexa bot hack, Windows zero-day, and more

Some last-minute wrapping of security-related tips from this week

22 Dec 2018 03:02 | 45

Virtualization

Corel – yeah, as in CorelDraw – looks in its Xmas stocking and discovers... Parallels

Art software maker snaps up virtualization tool for people who hate Qemu, Oracle VirtualBox that much

21 Dec 2018 06:04 | 46

Networks

What's this under the Christmas tree? A gift-wrapped Mellanox, for Microsoft? Say it ain't so

Windows giant mulls gobbling up network kit maker, according to anon insiders

20 Dec 2018 05:29 | 6

Security

On the first day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me... an emergency out-of-band security patch for IE

Update Internet Explorer now after Google detects attacks in the wild

19 Dec 2018 19:24 | 53

Security

Houston, we've had a problem: NASA fears internal server hacked, staff personal info swiped by miscreants

Another leak, this time it's personal. Plus: Trump launches Space Force, er, Command

18 Dec 2018 23:32 | 25

Science

It's beginning to look a lot like multi-threaded CPUs, everywhere you go... Arm teases SMT Cortex-A65AE car brains

Robo-ride processor core acts a lot like Intel Hyper-Threading

18 Dec 2018 14:00 | 14

On-Prem

You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle

Highlight: Ellison goes bananas over AWS Aurora noise

18 Dec 2018 04:12 | 17

On-Prem

Having swallowed its pride and started again with 10nm chips, Intel teases features in these 2019-ish processors

3D stacks of Arm-like core clusters, APIs, and more coming some time soon

12 Dec 2018 14:00 | 35

Analysis

Qualcomm axes staff, winds down data center processor efforts ... while China takes the blueprints and runs

With permission, of course: Guizhou joint-venture touts Centriq-like 48-core Arm server CPU

10 Dec 2018 11:20 | 12

Updated

And the next 7nm laptop processor will be designed by In, er, AM, um, Qualcomm: The 64-bit Arm Snapdragon 8CX

The X is for extreme. Dude?

06 Dec 2018 21:00 | 26

Personal Tech

Qualcomm lifts lid on 7nm Arm-based octo-core Snapdragon 855 chip for next year's expensive 5G Androids

An NE555 this is not

05 Dec 2018 23:02 | 22

Personal Tech

OM5G... Qualcomm teases next Snapdragon chip for phones: The 855 with a fingerprint Sonic Screwdriver, er, Sensor

AI acceleration, 5G next-gen mobe broadband, all the usual boxes ticked

04 Dec 2018 21:04 | 47

Exclusive

Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU

A little bit of history and a little more info on customized SoC

27 Nov 2018 21:11 | 32

re:Invent

A rumble in Amazon's jungle: AWS now rents out homegrown 64-bit Arm server processors

A1 'Graviton' instances available right now, can work out cheaper than x86 virtual machines

27 Nov 2018 05:04 | 19

Software

Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality

We never meant to make that widely public which is why we made a public FAQ for it

17 Nov 2018 01:03 | 120

Virtualization

The Register translates VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader

Have you tried innovating your enterprise synergy today?

06 Nov 2018 08:17 | 18

Servers

Intel peddles latest Xeon CPUs – E-series and 48-core Cascade Lake AP – to soothe epyc mygrayne

The AP does not stand for 'AMD P**-off'

05 Nov 2018 07:00 | 18

On-Prem

Official: IBM to gobble Red Hat for $34bn – yes, the enterprise Linux biz

Mainframe giant to try on open-source outfit

28 Oct 2018 19:14 | 294

Updated

We asked 100 people to name a backdoored router. You said 'EE's 4GEE HH70'. Our survey says... Top answer!

SSH hardcoded 'root' login found, patch incoming

26 Oct 2018 05:06 | 34

Devops

GitHub.com freezes up as techies race to fix dead data storage gear

TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Users' Pushes

22 Oct 2018 02:52 | 69

Science

Need a modest Arm Cortex-A CPU in your custom chip? Just apply online. Plus $125,000

That's how much it costs to license the blueprints (and don't forget the royalties)

22 Oct 2018 00:00 | 11

Bootnotes

London flatmate (Julian Assange) sues landlord (government of Ecuador) in human rights spat

WikiLeaks overlord challenges housemate rules in court

19 Oct 2018 22:08 | 184

Security

Tumblr turns stumblr, left humblr: Blogging biz blogs bloggers' private info to world+dog

'No evidence' vulnerability was abused, though, we're told

17 Oct 2018 22:39 | 7

Security

Someone's in hot water: Tea party super PAC group 'spilled 500,000+ voters' info' all over web

Leaky AWS S3 bucket fingered by infosec bods

17 Oct 2018 20:44 | 27

Analysis

Our processor tech's got legs, says Arm: 'One million' data center servers will ship in 2018

By servers, it means boxes that do networking, storage, security

17 Oct 2018 14:05 | 3

Edge + IoT

Arm PSA IoT API? BRB... Toolbox of tech to secure net-connected kit opens up some more

Programming interfaces, threat models, and more pop up online

17 Oct 2018 13:00 | 1

On-Prem

Arm doodles server, comms CPUs in public before they leak out in open-source code...

Data center blueprints get Neoverse brand, roadmap

16 Oct 2018 17:30 | 2

Updated

Virgin Media? More like Virgin Meltdown: Brit broadband ISP falls over amid power drama

Status: TITSUP – Total Inability To Support Users' Packets

15 Oct 2018 17:49 | 107

XDF

AI engines, Arm brains, DSP brawn... Versal is Xilinx's Kitchen Sink Edition FPGA

Good news: It's 7nm. Sad news: It's shipping 2H 2019

04 Oct 2018 06:04 | 4

XDF

Free for every Reg reader – and everyone else, too: Arm Cortex-M CPUs for Xilinx FPGAs

Like the blueprints we gave away last time... but... better

01 Oct 2018 20:07 | 15

On-Prem

Oracle cloud supremo Thomas Kurian extends temp leave to the heat death of the universe

Friday afternoon – a great time to bury bad news, like the exit of your product president

29 Sep 2018 00:25 | 18

Science

Take the wheel, Arm tells its notebook-grade Cortex-A76 CPU: Now you're a robo-ride brain

Safety critical feature plugged into high-end processor design

26 Sep 2018 13:00 | 18

Updated

Oi, you. Equifax. Cough up half a million quid for fumbling 15 million Brits' personal info to hackers

UK watchdog demands max penalty after security snafu

20 Sep 2018 00:10 | 62

Servers

Watt the heck is this? A 32-core 3.3GHz Arm server CPU shipping? Yes, says Ampere

If you're resisting x86, Lenovo has some current deals for you

18 Sep 2018 12:10 | 62

OSes

Linux kernel's Torvalds: 'I am truly sorry' for my 'unprofessional' rants, I need a break to get help

Project chief vows to learn to 'understand people’s emotions' after F-bomb explosions

17 Sep 2018 03:39 | 233

Site News

Do not adjust your set, er, browser: This is our new page-one design

Love it or hate it, you can opt out at any time – but, y'know, we really hope you like it

13 Sep 2018 10:46 | 198

SaaS

Ever wanted to strangle Microsoft? Now Outlook, Skype 'throttle' users amid storm cloud drama

Weird error message triggered by Azure update blunder

05 Sep 2018 18:33 | 72

Virtualization

VMware 'pressured' hotel to shut down tech event close to VMworld, IGEL sues resort giant

Mandalay Bay, restaurant hit with lawsuit after Las Vegas gathering axed mid-bite

30 Aug 2018 10:02 | 94

VMworld US

It's 2018 – so, of course, VMware is touting open-source blockchain code, Internet-of-Things tools

What's the virty giant up to now...

29 Aug 2018 05:04 | 2

VMworld US

ESXi on Arm? Yes, ESXi on Arm. VMware teases bare-metal hypervisor for 64-bit Arm servers

No, we're not pulling your leg

27 Aug 2018 19:52 | 13

VMworld US

VMware AWS cloud goes down... under, launches in Asia-Pacific, touts devops-ish tools, etc

Your quick announcement summary

27 Aug 2018 12:00 |

Hot Chips

Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX

AKA how it learned to stop loving SPARC64

22 Aug 2018 01:34 | 44

Security

Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed

Apps, kernels, virtual machines, SGX, SMM at risk from attack

14 Aug 2018 17:00 | 55

Site News

Another data-leaking Spectre CPU flaw among Intel's dirty dozen of security bug alerts today

Chipzilla preps for quarterly public patch updates

10 Jul 2018 17:00 | 33

Watercooler

I think I'm a clone now: Chinese AMD Epyc-like server chips appear in China. What gives?

We answer your questions in five minutes

10 Jul 2018 06:54 | 16

SaaS

IBM fired me because I'm not a millennial, says axed cloud sales star in age discrim court row

Ex-Bluemix global program director, 60, sues Big Blue

03 Jul 2018 22:42 | 156

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WannaCry-hero Hutchins' trial date set, Microsoft readies Google's Spectre V2 fix for Windows 10, Coinhive axed, and more

Here's why your next network switch, storage box, or 5G gateway may do more Arm than good: E1, N1 data-center CPU cores aim at future kit

The Lance Arm-strong of performance-enhanced CPUs: Armv8.1-M arch jams vector math into super-microcontrollers

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts

Trying to log into Office 365 right now? It's a coin flip, says Microsoft: Service goes TITSUP as Azure portal wobbles

Amazon Mime: We train (badly) an AI love bot using divorce bombshell Bezos' alleged sexts to his new girlfriend

Huawei's 7nm 64-core Arm server brain, fresh Intel desktop Core chips, IBM tapping Samsung for Power10, and more

Happy new year, readers. Yes, we have threaded comments, an image-lite mode, and more...

US states join watchdog probing CenturyLink's Xmas data center outage that screwed 911 system

Your two-minute infosec roundup: Drone arrests, Alexa bot hack, Windows zero-day, and more

Corel – yeah, as in CorelDraw – looks in its Xmas stocking and discovers... Parallels

What's this under the Christmas tree? A gift-wrapped Mellanox, for Microsoft? Say it ain't so

On the first day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me... an emergency out-of-band security patch for IE

Houston, we've had a problem: NASA fears internal server hacked, staff personal info swiped by miscreants

It's beginning to look a lot like multi-threaded CPUs, everywhere you go... Arm teases SMT Cortex-A65AE car brains

You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle

Having swallowed its pride and started again with 10nm chips, Intel teases features in these 2019-ish processors

Qualcomm axes staff, winds down data center processor efforts ... while China takes the blueprints and runs

And the next 7nm laptop processor will be designed by In, er, AM, um, Qualcomm: The 64-bit Arm Snapdragon 8CX

Qualcomm lifts lid on 7nm Arm-based octo-core Snapdragon 855 chip for next year's expensive 5G Androids

OM5G... Qualcomm teases next Snapdragon chip for phones: The 855 with a fingerprint Sonic Screwdriver, er, Sensor

Amazon's homegrown 2.3GHz 64-bit Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPU

A rumble in Amazon's jungle: AWS now rents out homegrown 64-bit Arm server processors

Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality

The Register translates VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader

Intel peddles latest Xeon CPUs – E-series and 48-core Cascade Lake AP – to soothe epyc mygrayne

Official: IBM to gobble Red Hat for $34bn – yes, the enterprise Linux biz

We asked 100 people to name a backdoored router. You said 'EE's 4GEE HH70'. Our survey says... Top answer!

GitHub.com freezes up as techies race to fix dead data storage gear

Need a modest Arm Cortex-A CPU in your custom chip? Just apply online. Plus $125,000

London flatmate (Julian Assange) sues landlord (government of Ecuador) in human rights spat

Tumblr turns stumblr, left humblr: Blogging biz blogs bloggers' private info to world+dog

Someone's in hot water: Tea party super PAC group 'spilled 500,000+ voters' info' all over web

Our processor tech's got legs, says Arm: 'One million' data center servers will ship in 2018

Arm PSA IoT API? BRB... Toolbox of tech to secure net-connected kit opens up some more

Arm doodles server, comms CPUs in public before they leak out in open-source code...

Virgin Media? More like Virgin Meltdown: Brit broadband ISP falls over amid power drama

AI engines, Arm brains, DSP brawn... Versal is Xilinx's Kitchen Sink Edition FPGA

Free for every Reg reader – and everyone else, too: Arm Cortex-M CPUs for Xilinx FPGAs

Oracle cloud supremo Thomas Kurian extends temp leave to the heat death of the universe

Take the wheel, Arm tells its notebook-grade Cortex-A76 CPU: Now you're a robo-ride brain

Oi, you. Equifax. Cough up half a million quid for fumbling 15 million Brits' personal info to hackers

Watt the heck is this? A 32-core 3.3GHz Arm server CPU shipping? Yes, says Ampere

Linux kernel's Torvalds: 'I am truly sorry' for my 'unprofessional' rants, I need a break to get help

Do not adjust your set, er, browser: This is our new page-one design

Ever wanted to strangle Microsoft? Now Outlook, Skype 'throttle' users amid storm cloud drama

VMware 'pressured' hotel to shut down tech event close to VMworld, IGEL sues resort giant

It's 2018 – so, of course, VMware is touting open-source blockchain code, Internet-of-Things tools

ESXi on Arm? Yes, ESXi on Arm. VMware teases bare-metal hypervisor for 64-bit Arm servers

VMware AWS cloud goes down... under, launches in Asia-Pacific, touts devops-ish tools, etc

Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX

Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed

The Register's 2018 homepage redesign: What's going on now?

Google unwraps its gateway drug: Edge TPU chips for IoT AI code

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