Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365
Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize
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Where in the world is Terraform Labs villain Do Kwon? Montenegro, actually
Probably in a jail cell, waiting to be extradited stateside
Legal24 Mar 2023 |
Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend
Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad
Networks24 Mar 2023 |
Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid
It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances'
Legal24 Mar 2023 |
Uncle Sam reveals it sent cyber-soldiers to Albania to hunt for Iranian threats
'Hunt forward' teams of this sort aid with defense and learn how attackers like Tehran operate
Security24 Mar 2023 | 1
Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket lifts off but fails to reach orbit
Mission named 'Good Luck Have Fun' needed more of both, but launch outfit insists it's a win
Science23 Mar 2023 | 1
Critical infrastructure gear is full of flaws, but hey, at least it's certified
Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed
CSO23 Mar 2023 | 4
Intel bumps up core counts for 13th-gen vPro chips
'We don't think it's a luxury' veep tells The Reg
On-Prem23 Mar 2023 | 5
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' about ChatGPT leaking conversations
Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name
AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 5
Red Hat veteran will head up SUSE from May as Di Donato steps down
In the meantime, the CFO is also interim CEO
Software23 Mar 2023 | 2
SAP user group: We want the same features on-prem that you put in the cloud
Concerns over multi-million investments customers already made in their on-prem ERP systems
Spotlight on Databases23 Mar 2023 | 2
D-Wave hello to another quantum pioneer warned over possible delisting
Share price slides below $1 for 30 days straight, but company vows it will comply with NYSE regs again
HPC23 Mar 2023 | 2
Tails 5.11: Secure-surfing 'amnesiac' live distro arrives
A highly opinionated little live USB/DVD/VM image for the paranoid
OSes23 Mar 2023 | 8
Turing Award goes to Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet
A cool $1 million to a man who is not afraid to eat his own words, nor roll out his own cable
Networks23 Mar 2023 | 28
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change
Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened
PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 14
First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research
Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship
Science23 Mar 2023 | 28
Croquet for Unity: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming... but it's so much more
Updated This is that rare announcement that's far more significant than it sounds
Software23 Mar 2023 | 13
Secure mail
Protection from business email compromise
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Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash
Terminal maker General Bytes shutters its cloud business after second breach in seven months
Security23 Mar 2023 | 26
Bogus ChatGPT extension steals Facebook cookies
All aboard the chatbot hype train! Next stop: Fraud
Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 6
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 | 30
Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit
Now all it has to do is land
Science23 Mar 2023 | 13
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 | 2
We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in
Register Kettle We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype
AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 15
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review
Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 33
Cisco kindly reveals proof of concept attacks for flaws in rival Netgear's kit
Maybe this is deserved given the problem's in a hidden telnet service
Research22 Mar 2023 | 18
Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive
Now that's a flash bang
Cyber-crime22 Mar 2023 | 34
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 | 40
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 | 13
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 |
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life
JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan
Science22 Mar 2023 | 13
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 | 48
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 | 8
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 | 59
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 | 12
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 |
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The benefits of modernizing your PC estate
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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 | 15
Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown
Releasing 4% of workforce
Systems22 Mar 2023 | 3
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 | 27
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
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 | 12
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 | 24
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 |
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
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 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 |
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 | 8
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 | 55
You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security?
And Google Cloud is next
CSO21 Mar 2023 | 3
Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability?
My goodness that's moist
Science21 Mar 2023 | 14
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 | 8
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 | 2
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
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
Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools
Opinion The war in Ukraine is bad and wrong… but does blocking these contributions help Ukraine?
OSes21 Mar 2023 | 159
Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware
65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution
Science21 Mar 2023 | 42
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 | 21
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 |
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
Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop
A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC
Personal Tech21 Mar 2023 | 102
Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone
Beware of Greeks bearing GIFs
Security21 Mar 2023 | 23
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
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
Putin to staffers: Throw out your iPhones, or 'give it to the kids'
April Fools should use Russian or Chinese tech instead, Kremlin advises
Security21 Mar 2023 | 38
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 | 3
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
Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost
Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text
AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 17
Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science
A 'new deal for the night' needed
Science20 Mar 2023 | 24
How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers
Digital lending is only fine when we do it
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 110
Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered
Updated aCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device
Security20 Mar 2023 | 36
Amazon lays off another 9,000, because why not?
Add another zero or so and soon we're talking real numbers
Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 10
Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs
Concerns over consistent dialog boxes, pinning, default apps mulled
OSes20 Mar 2023 | 36
Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped
You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow
Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 26
HPE picks up OpsRamp to sprinkle some AIOps on Greenlake multi-cloud
Hopes for predictive insights and automation, but no word on what it'll pay for that
AI + ML20 Mar 2023 | 2
AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil
Ditching diesel in attempt to shrink its carbon footprint
On-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 15
OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes
In brief ALSO: Discord quietly edited its privacy policy after rolling out new generative AI features, and more
AI + ML20 Mar 2023 | 19
Don't Be Evil, a gaggle of Googlers tell CEO Pichai amid mega layoffs
Open letter to top brass signed by 1,400+ staff offers 5-point plan to improve redundancy process
Off-Prem20 Mar 2023 | 26
UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog
NHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation
Software20 Mar 2023 | 8
BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it
Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team
Security20 Mar 2023 | 69
Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats
Extraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two
Science20 Mar 2023 | 38
Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO
Margins in software are enough to let you heat house, eat and buy a car
Software20 Mar 2023 | 28
The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud
Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need
PaaS + IaaS20 Mar 2023 | 65
Turning green with professional-grade PCs
Climate change negatively impacts our society, leaving businesses to find new ways to optimize business operations to reduce CO2 emissions
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IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco
Who, Me? Badly configured routers ended up costing a bundle
Networks20 Mar 2023 | 128
Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes
Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming
Security20 Mar 2023 | 134
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
Police pounce on 'pompompurin' – alleged mastermind of BreachForums
In Brief Crypto laundering service gets cleaned up by police and SVB mess draws in more criminals
Security20 Mar 2023 | 3
Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note
Can't get Google to finish the job, though
Legal20 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 | 19
BianLian ransomware crew goes 100% extortion after free decryptor lands
No good deed goes unpunished, or something like that
Cyber-crime19 Mar 2023 | 5
Microsoft pushes out PowerShell scripts to fix BitLocker bypass
Attackers exploiting the vulnerability could access encrypted data
Software19 Mar 2023 | 25
You've been pwned, how much will each stolen customer SSN cost you? How about $7.5k?
At the very least, with other costs on top
Cyber-crime18 Mar 2023 | 16
Germany clocks that ripping out Huawei, ZTE network kit won't be cheap or easy
More than half of Euro nation's infrastructure would have to go
Networks18 Mar 2023 | 58
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