B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe
Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades
Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 24
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India gives itself a mission to lead the 'Global South' into 6G era
Builds its own seat at the standards development table
Off-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 5
South Korea fines McDonald's for data leak from raw SMB share
British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec
Security23 Mar 2023 | 1
Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment
Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 42
Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong
Do you Xi what I Xi?
Offbeat22 Mar 2023 | 33
India's absurd infosec reporting rules get just 15 followers
CERT-In was told its six-hour notification requirement was a bad idea – now it knows just how bad
Security22 Mar 2023 | 3
Xi, Putin declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec
'Technological sovereignty is the key to sustainability' states Russian despot
Security22 Mar 2023 | 21
Google suspends top Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo
Alleges it’s infected with malware – but not the version in its own digital tat bazaar
Security21 Mar 2023 | 4
Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak
Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble
Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 2
Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data
Speeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom
Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 8
Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency
Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region
Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 11
AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution
2023 is only one more than 2022, right?
OSes20 Mar 2023 | 11
TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report
Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls
Security19 Mar 2023 | 17
Techie fired for inventing an acronym – and accidentally applying it to the boss
On Call A tale of how a PEBCAK became a CLE
On-Prem17 Mar 2023 | 187
Cosmic rays more likely to glitch out water-cooled computers
'Soft errors' caused by neutrons are well known. This study suggests we might be making them more likely
Systems17 Mar 2023 | 39
Feds arrest and charge exiled Chinese billionaire over massive crypto fraud
This one has it all: Donald Trump’s inner circle, a Beijing bot backlash, conspiracy theories, and more
Cyber-crime17 Mar 2023 | 21
China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack
We're headed for models-as-a-service, apparently, and the OS doesn't matter
AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 16
Reg fashion: Here's what the well-dressed astronaut will wear on the Moon in 2025
Charcoal gray with orange highlights – so chic, and so deliberately fake
Science16 Mar 2023 | 61
Google stops selling its biz-grade augmented reality specs
In case of apathy, break Glass
Software16 Mar 2023 | 33
Microsoft pauses delayed partner ecosystem security update to count its money
Active Directory privilege de-escalation will run for nine days in May before taking June off
Channel16 Mar 2023 | 2
Bing AI feels like ChatGPT stuffed into a suit – not the future
First Look Poor interface, lousy lyrics, and bland answers mean this won't be the tool that makes Edge mainstream
AI + ML15 Mar 2023 | 62
China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck
Mutant offspring of a semi and a trolleybus suggested as emission-cutting future of commercial transport
Science15 Mar 2023 | 82
SAP's in-and-out burger Qualtrics sold to Silver Lake and Canadian pension funds
Someone's still got some cash jangling about after the Silicon Valley Bank mess
Spotlight on Databases14 Mar 2023 | 4
Japan Post closer to replacing snail mail with autonomous drones
As Alphabet's Wing wants to fly millions of small packages by 2024
AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 11
Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts
'We're looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus' – which increasingly means staving off TikTok
Software14 Mar 2023 | 14
Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months
Who, me? A missed migration mitigated the mistake
On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 90
Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.'
Some training in refreshed certification platform to be free, including short how-to vids
Networks13 Mar 2023 | 5
Singapore software maker says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud
‘Wouldn’t be profitable, or exist, if our products were 100% on AWS’
Off-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 37
US government says Silicon Valley Bank depositors can get their cash on Monday
Feds say this won’t cost taxpayers a dime
Legal13 Mar 2023 | 36
Duelling techies debugged printer by testing the strength of electric shocks
On Call Even a hundred-volt jolt couldn’t convince one of them that hardware was the problem
On-Prem10 Mar 2023 | 107
Lenovo revs up a rackable Aston Martin … workstation?
It’s red, it’s fast, it packs 4th-gen Xeons and Nvidia RTX 6000s, and it looks like it’s been run over by a sports car
Personal Tech10 Mar 2023 | 14
Chinese biz banned from buying US tech rent it instead
Clouds reportedly offering surprisingly cheap access to blockaded comrades
PaaS + IaaS10 Mar 2023 | 7
Two tech-centric banks strike trouble, spooking markets
Silicon Valley Bank sold billions in bonds as startups struggle, crypto-centric Silvergate Bank just gave up
Legal10 Mar 2023 | 12
VMware nods to containerization with tweaks to virtual desktops and apps
In theory, this should reduce the number of servers needed to package apps
Virtualization09 Mar 2023 |
South Korea warns US: The CHIPS Act leaves a sour taste
Minister wants to protect Samsung, SK hynix, from having to give up the crown jewels to score subsidies
Legal09 Mar 2023 | 18
India teases AI plan to 'catalyse the next generation of the internet'
Minister wants to release 'one of the largest datasets in the world'
AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 5
Aussie tech worker payroll scheme operators found guilty of tax fraud
Contractors left hanging while principals splurged on luxury goods
Cyber-crime08 Mar 2023 | 19
Windows Insider Dev Channel flies again as very flighty Canary Channel
Microsoft doesn't even want you to use these unstable releases, will migrate you to them anyway
OSes07 Mar 2023 | 10
South Korea moves to resolve WWII dispute with Japan that troubles tech supply chains
Nations edge closer to an acceptable settlement on reparations for forced labor
Legal07 Mar 2023 | 24
Japan's next-gen H3 satellite launch vehicle fails on debut
Destroyed after second stage failed to ignite, making the mission impossible
Science07 Mar 2023 | 6
Atlassian to dump 500 – by email – in the name of 'rebalancing'
Collaboration upstart previously said it would 'moderate' hiring and use layoffs elsewhere to boost its talent pool
Software07 Mar 2023 | 48
Intel buries news of GPU cuts and delays in low-key Friday post
Falcon Shore will be late. Rialto Bridge and Lancaster Sound cancelled. Will Chipzilla ever nail its XPU plan?
On-Prem06 Mar 2023 | 12
US adds Inspur – friend to Intel, IBM, Cisco and hyperscalers – to export ban list
Loongson, China’s most advanced chipmaker and a desktop contender, also added to entity list
On-Prem06 Mar 2023 | 1
Service desk tech saved consultancy Capita from VPN meltdown, got a smack for it
On Call Maybe he shouldn’t have built a naughtily-named website where users could get the fix?
Networks03 Mar 2023 | 81
Ericsson fined for dodgy Djibouti dealings and warned over Iraqi indiscretions
$206 million for breaching 2019 settlement – and DoJ warns it won't be afraid to do this again
Legal03 Mar 2023 | 5
At Citrix, 'perpetual licenses' means 'we'd rather move you to a subscription'
Intros 'universal licenses' that can be deployed anywhere and include extra support sweeteners
Software03 Mar 2023 | 27
APNIC elections: Reform activists rejected, org welcomes stronger election protections
Candidates supported by Morocco-backed group fail to win a single seat on Executive Council
Networks02 Mar 2023 | 3
Microsoft adds features to Windows 11 monthly – managing it is your problem
'Continuous innovation' means it's time to refine your WSUS skills unless you want users doing all sorts of weird stuff
OSes02 Mar 2023 | 71
Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year
Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs
SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8
China's efforts to influence standards are mostly fake – and flopping
But Carnegie Endowment worries a handful are real, and that the ITU is 'susceptible to manipulation'
Software02 Mar 2023 | 10
Apple's outsourced Lightning cable plant in India goes up in flames
Local officials say fire suppression equipment wasn't operational
Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 40
IBM teases AI-infused hybrid cloudy upgrade to z/OS - Bingo!
Mainframes dating back to 2017 can run forthcoming OS, which has something for everyone – even COBOL coders
Systems01 Mar 2023 | 10
US Marshals Service leaks ‘law enforcement sensitive information’ in ransomware incident
It’s not just another data breach when the victim oversees witness protection programs
Cyber-crime28 Feb 2023 | 5
ChatGPT, write a report about database glitches that crashed you today
While we're here, what do you think of Zuck announcing a vague catchup plan to build 'AI personas'?
Spotlight on Databases28 Feb 2023 | 19
Arm has legs: VMware's Bitnami starts packaging apps for Graviton and Ampere
Customers are keen on the lower cloudy database prices available after dropping x86
PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2023 | 1
Global finance wonks worry financial services too invested in outsourcers, Big Tech
Not keen on crypto, either – and looking forward to consistent language on cyber incidents
Legal27 Feb 2023 | 2
Chinese defence boffins ponder microwaving Starlink satellites to stop surveillance
Beijing has filed the paperwork for its LEO constellation, but SpaceX is already there
Science27 Feb 2023 | 93
PC tech turns doctor to diagnose PC's constant crashes as a case of arthritis
On Call Customer with a magnetic personality also had a significantly magnetic wristband
Personal Tech24 Feb 2023 | 216
Europe to consult on making Big Tech pay for the networks it floods
Continental bloc also greases the skids to usher in the gigabit age in two or three years
Networks24 Feb 2023 | 32
HPE drops private 5G into GreenLake by acquiring Athonet
Wi-Fi not? It boosts Aruba's portfolio, single wireless nets are a way off, and everything-as-a-service is hot right now
Off-Prem24 Feb 2023 |
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