Chinese boffins call for research on ‘countermeasures’ to US chip bans
Suggest fundamental semiconductor physics research is needed if China is to build viable local industry
Systems21 Feb 2023 | 15
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APNIC calls in lawyers to handle election code of conduct breach allegations
Threats to voters also reported as vote for regional internet registry heats up
Legal21 Feb 2023 | 7
Clumsy ships, one Chinese, sever submarine cables that connect Taiwanese islands
Vietnam has also struggled with four out of five cables in strife
Networks21 Feb 2023 | 32
VMware, Broadcom extend deadline for acquisition to be signed, sealed, delivered
90-day stretch comes after Euro-probe paused for production of paperwork
Virtualization20 Feb 2023 | 1
Linus Torvalds releases 'pedestrian' Linux Kernel 6.2, urges testers to show it some love
Intel has as much to celebrate as anyone thanks the arc of progress catching up to its GPUs
OSes20 Feb 2023 | 2
If you have a fan, and want this company to stay in business, bring it to IT now
On Call It ain’t half hot in the datacenter when an errant aircon engineer leaves the tech team to take the heat
On-Prem17 Feb 2023 | 143
Antivirus apps are there to protect you – Cisco's ClamAV has a heckuva flaw
Switchzilla hardware and software need attention, unless you fancy arbitrary remote code execution
Patches17 Feb 2023 | 8
APNIC warns members to watch out for fake election phone calls
The Register finds evidence of astroturfing in governance stoush
Legal17 Feb 2023 | 3
Microsoft makes Windows-on-Arm in VMs on Macs official – with Parallels for starters
VMware approves even if it's not yet on the approved list
Virtualization17 Feb 2023 | 12
99 year old man says cryptocurrency is for idiots
Charlie Munger also thinks semiconductors are a terrible business, Taiwan's safe from China, Elon Musk is 'peculiar'
Software16 Feb 2023 | 142
Burn, backlog, burn: Cisco inferno clears away supply chain hassles
As rival Arista admits Meta and Microsoft now account for at least ten percent of its business
Networks16 Feb 2023 | 5
Debian dev to the rescue after proposal to remove Itanium from Linux kernel
Nobody uses it, Linus Torvalds was happy to lose it, but it looks like sticking around
Systems16 Feb 2023 | 25
Meet the new Citrix, same as the old Citrix – but hybrid
First public word on 'new' direction reveals focus on core technologies and 'a ton of hiring' to modernize them a bit
Software16 Feb 2023 | 10
Hyundai and Kia issue software upgrades to thwart killer TikTok car theft hack
Gone in 60 seconds using a USB-A plug and brute force instead of a key
Patches15 Feb 2023 | 55
IBM cheapens Oracle by delivering promised power-up for some POWER servers
Plus – calm down now – all the fun of OS subscriptions!
Spotlight on Databases15 Feb 2023 | 3
APNIC election sparks move for rapid rule changes to prevent council stacking
Some of the actors involved in AFRINIC's recent controversies want to reform Asia's regional registry
Networks15 Feb 2023 | 3
Akamai to expand Linode into a cloud so good you’ll want your data to leave it
Promises tiny egress costs and a better way to do distributed microservices
PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 1
US defense forces no match for the unstoppable fiend known as Reply-All
As 13,000 officers managed their inboxes, a certain Chinese balloon floated across Montana …
Software14 Feb 2023 | 54
Thunderbird email client is Go for new plumage in July
Supernova will prove open source project is not dead – just pining for an enormo-revamp
Software14 Feb 2023 | 89
Smile! South Korea's moon orbiter sends back first snaps of Earth
Danuri probe is ready to spend its planned year testing space internet, spotting radiation and/or water
Science14 Feb 2023 | 5
Four top euro carriers will use phone numbers to target ads and annoy Google & Facebook
European Commission satisfied joint venture won't create competitive problems for locals
Personal Tech13 Feb 2023 | 63
'Private cloud server' Jira upgraded for wider teams, dragged into culture wars
Atlassian wants it used more widely … but probably not for reporting misinformation to social networks
Devops13 Feb 2023 | 8
Linus Torvalds releases probably unnecessary release candidate eight for Linux 6.2
Emperor Penguin promised a relaxed seasonal development cycle and has delivered
OSes13 Feb 2023 | 11
Roses are red, algorithms are blue, here's a poem I made a machine write for you
Opinion Valentine's Day is the moment to fall a little bit out of love with chatbots
AI + ML12 Feb 2023 | 46
VMware turns 25 today: Is it a mature professional or headed back to Mom's house?
Special feature Beat Microsoft. Set agendas. Became essential. Hiked prices. Now we wait for Broadcom's reign
Virtualization10 Feb 2023 | 15
What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage
On-Call Who would willingly chews a 6:00AM Sunday callout?
On-Prem10 Feb 2023 | 164
US teases more China tech sanctions, this time to deflate balloon-makers
State Dept already has one target, FBI is identifying sources of floating surveillance platform's components
Security10 Feb 2023 | 27
Japan joins ranks of nations plotting smackdown for Apple, Google
Regulator wants to bust the oligopoly in mobile OS and app markets
Software10 Feb 2023 |
Reddit reveals security incident that looks more SNAFU than TIFU
Phishing hooked internal documents, code, and some non-critical systems, but users' personal info safe
Cyber-crime10 Feb 2023 | 8
Xen hypervisor port to RISC-V moving – slowly, but moving
Far from ready, but developer thinks it's helping the whole codebase
Virtualization09 Feb 2023 | 4
Cloudflare engineer broke rules – and a customer's website – with traffic throttle
Updated Those who think Big Tech has its thumb on the scales are going to love this
Off-Prem09 Feb 2023 | 25
The Twitpocalypse may have begun, as datacenter migration reportedly founders
Glitches hit Elon’s social media mess, as it announces 4,000-character tweets for paying customers
Off-Prem09 Feb 2023 | 74
Bank of England won't call it Britcoin but says digital pound 'likely to be needed in future'
Technical paper says blockchain probably isn't up to the job
Software08 Feb 2023 | 176
China to stop certifying fax machines, ISDN and frame relay kit
Modems and pagers soon to beep their last, ATM switches on the outer too
Networks08 Feb 2023 | 19
Zoom and gloom: Vid-chat biz sheds 15 percent of staff – by email
CEO admits hyper-growth during pandemic was careless
Software08 Feb 2023 | 10
China’s Baidu reveals generative AI chatbot based on language model bigger than GPT-3
Probably bilingual bot will be called ERNIE outside China, Wenxin Yiyan within
AI + ML07 Feb 2023 | 21
Pakistan’s PM overturns Wikipedia ban, seeks end to whack-a-mole content blocks
Cabinet committee gets to find a solution after years of bans didn’t achieve a lot
Legal07 Feb 2023 | 21
South Korea to treat crypto tokens and virtual assets as if they were securities
‘Food does not change no matter what bowl it is served in’ says regulator
Legal07 Feb 2023 | 5
Ransomware scum launch wave of attacks on critical, but old, VMWare ESXi vuln
You’ve had almost two years to patch and some of the software is EOL, now attackers déployer un rançongiciel
Security06 Feb 2023 | 15
Fujitsu re-org sparks alphabet soup splatter: GSBG splits into GTSBG and GBSBG
Turns out the single brand ‘Uvance’ plan needs two groups to pull it off
Software06 Feb 2023 | 4
No, you cannot safely run a network operations center from a corridor
On Call Rack full of kit predictably became a network disruption center
Off-Prem03 Feb 2023 | 83
China unveils massive blockchain cluster running homebrew tech
1,000 servers capable of 240 million transactions a second, because Beijing wants to watch everything
On-Prem03 Feb 2023 | 16
Microsoft warns some Azure usage notifications – including abnormalities – are broken
There's a lot of manual work to do from now to March to make sure you don't break the cloud bank
Off-Prem02 Feb 2023 | 13
India sidelines Big Tech in push for farming cloud, goes open source instead
Also cuts import duties to attract EV-battery makers and keep smartphone factories humming
Software02 Feb 2023 | 1
China reportedly producing quantum computers – good luck observing one
More supposition than superposition as local media goes on Sci-Fi journey
Systems02 Feb 2023 | 16
200MP smartphone and first premium PC spearhead Samsung's pro push
Updated Galaxies dive into Apple territory
Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 32
Intel cuts some workers’ pay to fund its future
Still plans a ‘competitive dividend’ for investors
Systems01 Feb 2023 | 20
Counterfeit crud crooks crossed over to e-commerce during COVID
Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye
Networks01 Feb 2023 | 3
Broadcom's VMware battle plan is to challenge hyperscalers
As 17 percent of customers see Virtzilla's short term strategic significance shrinking
Software01 Feb 2023 | 7
Amid FTX's burning wreckage, Japan outpost promises asset withdrawals in February
Well what do you know – plenty of hard-nosed regulation by central authorities actually protected investors
Cyber-crime31 Jan 2023 | 10
South Korea makes crypto crackdown a national justice priority
It's listed alongside issues like tackling gang violence, drugs, and sex crimes
Cyber-crime31 Jan 2023 | 2
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment
Did Pathfinder get lost in sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse?
Software30 Jan 2023 | 33
Japan, Netherlands reportedly join US in China tech export ban
But the first rule of Chip Fight Club must be observed. Meanwhile Beijing may have its own shadow bans
Systems30 Jan 2023 | 28
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis
Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
On-Prem30 Jan 2023 | 6
User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway
On-Call Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right
Software27 Jan 2023 | 156
Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky
Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics
Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
Developers: What if someone said you’d never have to meet with marketing again?
Atlassian thinks it’s made that possible by extending automation from Jira to Confluence
Devops25 Jan 2023 | 8
Go to security school, GoTo – theft of encryption keys shows you need it
Ongoing probe into cloud storage attack finds customer data exfiltrated
Security25 Jan 2023 | 49
Microsoft: You're not out of love with cloud, you're just 'optimizing' it for a bit
Q2 results include modest revenue increase, steep consumer and net income decrease
Software25 Jan 2023 | 9
Well that escalated quickly: India demos homebrew mobile OS
BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware
OSes25 Jan 2023 | 39
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