Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop
A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC
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Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools
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Putin to staffers: Throw out your iPhones, or 'give it to the kids'
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Curl, the URL fetcher that can, marks 25 years of transfers
Utility began as a personal project, found its way into billions of devices
Software21 Mar 2023 | 10
You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security?
And Google Cloud is next
CSO21 Mar 2023 | 2
Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone
Beware of Greeks bearing GIFs
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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
Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware
65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution
Science21 Mar 2023 | 40
SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut
Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share
Off-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 16
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
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
Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography
GTC What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next
Systems21 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 | 20
Unknown actors deploy malware to steal data in occupied regions of Ukraine
If this is Kyiv's work, Russia can Crimea river
Security22 Mar 2023 | 18
Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live
Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike
Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 | 6
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 | 29
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
Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man
Digital rights org criticizes use of fill-in-the-blank template used to quell separatist protests
Legal22 Mar 2023 | 10
NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess
13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm
Science21 Mar 2023 | 7
BreachForums shuts down ... but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy
Admins decide reviving crime-mart is dangerous, hint at new chapter
Cyber-crime22 Mar 2023 | 2
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together
GTC Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too
Systems21 Mar 2023 | 1
No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh
This article was not written by a computer, not that you could tell for sure either way
AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 23
Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket
Still tumbleweed for PC industry right now, but maybe folks will buy computers-on-bikes?
Offbeat21 Mar 2023 | 17
Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong
Do you Xi what I Xi?
Offbeat22 Mar 2023 | 28
Google reminds everyone it too can launch a ChatGPT-like chatbot … waiting list
Meanwhile, Bing can now output images, Adobe touts shiny art platform Firefly
AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 7
Hospital to test AI 'copilot' for doctors that jots notes on patient care
The hope? Reducing piles of admin for clinicians freeing them up for medical work
AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 19
IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs
You'd think there'd be more techies on the market, but many cuts were in business areas
On-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 23
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing
GTC Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers
Systems21 Mar 2023 |
Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping
Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway
AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 3
Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability?
My goodness that's moist
Science21 Mar 2023 | 12
Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small
Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade
Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 | 1
German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook
Country's super strong data rights under magnifying glass after half a dozen complaints filed
Security22 Mar 2023 | 13
US details CHIPS Act rules that give China and South Korea some comfort
Allows a little expansion of output from existing Middle Kingdom facilities
Legal22 Mar 2023 |
GitHub Copilot learns new tricks, adopts this year's model
Armed with GPT-4, Microsoft's AI 'pair programmer' can tag pull requests, parrot documentation, talk about code
AI + ML22 Mar 2023 | 11
Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown
Releasing 4% of workforce
Systems22 Mar 2023 | 3
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years
Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 13
Boffins develop AI model for designing proteins to make synthetic blood plasma
And it's not the only hybrid synthetic biomaterial scientists are targeting
AI + ML22 Mar 2023 |
Watchdog: Broadcom buy of VMware may be bad for competition
Server price hikes, rival hardware makers locked out ... haven't we been warning that for a while?
Virtualization22 Mar 2023 | 4
Microsoft freaks out users with Windows 11 warning: 'LSA protection is off'
Alerts telling folks their 'device may be vulnerable' triggered by KB5007651
OSes22 Mar 2023 | 4
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life
JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan
Science22 Mar 2023 | 2
Aerospike targets Java Spring devs with support for the popular framework
Database shortcuts built in popular environment in hopes of scoring devs who want an easy life
Spotlight on Databases22 Mar 2023 |
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word
A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 3
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