Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes
How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots'
Networks21 May 2022 | 1
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Conti: Russian-backed rulers of Costa Rican hacktocracy?
In brief Also, Chinese IT admin jailed for deleting database, and the NSA promises no more backdoors
Security21 May 2022 | 4
China-linked Twisted Panda caught spying on Russian defense R&D
Because Beijing isn't above covert ops to accomplish its five-year goals
Security20 May 2022 | 14
FTC signals crackdown on ed-tech harvesting kid's data
Trade watchdog, and President, reminds that COPPA can ban ya
Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 3
Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China
Chinese joint venture's ousted CEO tries to hang on - who will get control?
Legal20 May 2022 | 10
SmartNICs power the cloud, are enterprise datacenters next?
High pricing, lack of software make smartNICs a tough sell, despite offload potential
Networks20 May 2022 | 3
US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025
China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software
HPC20 May 2022 | 11
Repairability champ Framework's modular laptop gets a speed boost
With any other portable, this would be bad news for existing owners
Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 11
Boeing's Starliner CST-100 on its way to the ISS 2 years late
A couple of thruster failures shouldn't affect the Calamity Capsule's second attempt at reaching space station
Science20 May 2022 | 42
Biden tours Samsung fab, talks chip cooperation with South Korea
Factory is a model for one the company has planned in Texas
Systems20 May 2022 | 5
Meta to squeeze money from WhatsApp with Cloud API for businesses
How to make a free messaging platform bought for $22 billion profitable
Applications20 May 2022 | 13
Microsoft patches the patch that broke Windows authentication
May 10 update addressed serious vulns but also had problems of its own
Security20 May 2022 | 12
Daisy Group to take on some of data management company Sungard's UK customers
Customers at other Sungard datacenters are not affected
On-Prem20 May 2022 |
FreeBSD 13.1 is out for everything from PowerPC to x86-64
The granddaddy of FOSS UNIX just keeps on trucking – and is a lot easier to install this time round
OSes20 May 2022 | 38
Microsoft Bing censors politically sensitive Chinese terms
Updated Research claims it fails to autofill certain names in Han characters, Microsoft says it's technical error
Research20 May 2022 | 15
Failed gambler? How about an algorithm that predicts the future
Something for the Weekend Hopefully an end to '... and you'll never guess what happened next!'
Bootnotes20 May 2022 | 65
Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth
On Call Network? What's that when it's at home?
Columnists20 May 2022 | 169
Protecting data now as the quantum era approaches
Analysis Startup QuSecure is the latest vendor to jump into the field with its as-a-service offering
Security20 May 2022 | 2
China’s GitHub clone making all repos private pending mysterious ‘review’
Gitee apologises but won't explain why this is happening
Software20 May 2022 | 9
Mozilla opens testing for Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox
Browser makers line up for Google's extension system but complaints persist
Software20 May 2022 | 21
Canada bans Huawei and ZTE from 5G networks, citing national security risks
Ban on shopping from September, rip and replace order with 2024 deadline
Security20 May 2022 | 18
India slightly softens infosec incident reporting and data retention rules
But also makes it plain that offshore entities must comply
Security20 May 2022 |
Lenovo halves its ThinkPad workstation range
Two becomes one as ThinkPad P16 stands alone and HX replaces mobile Xeon
Personal Tech20 May 2022 | 11
US won’t prosecute ‘good faith’ security researchers under CFAA
Well, that clears things up? Maybe not.
Security20 May 2022 | 35
Intel plans immersion lab to chill its power-hungry chips
AI chips are sucking down 600W+ and the solution could be to drown them.
On-Prem19 May 2022 | 39
US recovers a record $15m from the 3ve ad-fraud crew
Swiss banks cough up around half of the proceeds of crime
Security19 May 2022 | 11
Lawmakers launch bill to break up tech giants' ad dominance
Running ad auctions while also buying and selling ads may be outlawed for large firms
Legal19 May 2022 | 5
America bucks global smartphone decline with help from Apple
Cupertino's 51% control is why NA market grew while the world shrunk, says Canalys
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 7
Export bans prompt Russia to use Chinese x86 CPU replacement
With few options, Russia will look to half-fast chips from Chinese maker
Systems19 May 2022 | 63
Acer's TravelMate laptops arrive – complete with Microsoft Pluton chips
MS's TPM tip finally gets a grip – but shh – don't mention the Chromebooks
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 2
Ryzen shines with remote management on Qualcomm Wi-Fi kit
Working to compete with Intel as FastConnect comes to AMD-processor-powered PCs
Systems19 May 2022 |
Fastly buys dev platform and web IDE Glitch
Updated CDN biz hopes merger will add a new way to use its edge services
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 |
Start your engines: Windows 11 ready for broad deployment
If you're on Windows 10, and meet requirements, it's ready to rumble... and 22H2 is waiting in the wings
OSes19 May 2022 | 95
Corporate investments are a massive hidden source of carbon emissions
Just because companies are publicly decreasing carbon footprints doesn't mean their cash isn't doing the opposite
On-Prem19 May 2022 | 17
Iran, China-linked gangs join Putin's disinformation war online
They're using the invasion 'to take aim at the usual adversaries,' Mandiant told The Reg
Security19 May 2022 | 11
Bing! Microsoft tests search box in the middle of Windows 11 desktop
Attempt to be interactive meets cries of 'Someone dumped a text box right in the center of my desktop!'
OSes19 May 2022 | 42
Cisco warns of up to $720m sales loss: Blames China lockdown, Russia pullout
Share price collapses 19% as COVID-19 policy hits supply chain
Networks19 May 2022 | 3
American Airlines decides to cruise into Azure's cloud
So that's who to blame when its IT crashes, huh?
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 | 10
Ready for testing: First-ever supercomputer powered by Intel's wildcard AI chips
At the Haba, go, go Habana. The hottest research north of Havana
HPC19 May 2022 | 1
Landmark case recognizes Bored Ape NFT as an asset
Singapore issues injunction against the sale of image procured through questionable foreclosure
Legal19 May 2022 | 37
Hot glare of the spotlight doesn’t slow BlackByte ransomware gang
Crew's raids continue worldwide, Talos team warns
Research19 May 2022 | 4
BT: 'Quantum radios' could boost 5G network range
Tech exploits electromagnetically induced transparency to form highly sensitive electric field detector
Networks19 May 2022 | 14
Logitech Pop: Stylish, portable, but far from the best typing experience
For tiny Venn diagram wedge who want the feel of a mechanical keyboard plus, er, emoji keys
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 54
Google's first report on Privacy Sandbox hits UK watchdog's inbox
No 'reportable concerns' yet plenty of concerned feedback
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 2
Despite ban, China surges back to second place on bitcoin mining charts
Miners behind the Great Firewall may never have downed tools, say Cambridge crypto-boffins
Software19 May 2022 | 5
The cyber threat isn’t going anywhere, but the fight back starts in London
CyberThreat 22 returns this September
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Microsoft-backed robovans to deliver grub in London
British startup Wayve gets supercomputing leg up
AI + ML19 May 2022 | 26
Voyager 1 space probe producing ‘anomalous telemetry data’
Engineers debugging at 160 bits per second, with 41 hours latency
Science19 May 2022 | 110
Your snoozing iOS 15 iPhone may actually be sleeping with one antenna open
No, you're not really gonna be hacked. But you may be surprised
Research19 May 2022 | 39
China will produce one in five of the chips it uses in 2026, says analyst
Well short of planned 70 percent domestic capacity
Systems19 May 2022 | 1
Tencent happily parting ways with loss-making cloud customers
Cutting costs across sprawling business as COVID makes life hard in China
PaaS + IaaS19 May 2022 |
Google Russia goes broke after bank account snatched
We're shutting down as we can no longer pay staff, bills, web giant says
Personal Tech19 May 2022 | 64
Patch your VMware gear now – or yank it out, Uncle Sam tells federal agencies
Critical authentication bypass revealed, older flaws under active attack
CSO19 May 2022 | 6
IT staffing, recruitment biz settles claims it discriminated against Americans
Foreign workers favored over US residents because that's what clients wanted, allegedly
Legal19 May 2022 | 20
Will this be one of the world's first RISC-V laptops?
Pic A sneak peek at a notebook that could be revealed this year
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 55
Did ID.me hoodwink Americans with IRS facial-recognition tech?
Senators want the FTC to investigate "evidence of deceptive statements"
AI + ML18 May 2022 | 14
Meet Wizard Spider, the multimillion-dollar gang behind Conti, Ryuk malware
Analysis Russia-linked crime-as-a-service crew is rich, professional – and investing in R&D
Research18 May 2022 | 3
Supreme Court urged to halt 'unconstitutional' Texas content-no-moderation law
Everyone's entitled to a viewpoint but what's your viewpoint on what exactly is and isn't a viewpoint?
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 82
How these crooks backdoor online shops and siphon victims' credit card info
FBI and co blow lid off latest PHP tampering scam
Cyber-crime18 May 2022 | 4
The new generation of CentOS replacements – plus the daddy of them all: RHEL 8.6
Rocky and Alma are here for those CentOS Linux users who are still smarting
OSes18 May 2022 | 39
Judge details Lynch's $700k signoff via iPhone text in full Autonomy judgement
Still no damages number, likely to be way less than $5 billion
Legal18 May 2022 | 5
Microsoft revises software licensing, cloud policies amid EU regulator scrutiny
OVHcloud and Nextcloud lawsuits hit the spot as Windows giant admits to potential competition issues
Off-Prem18 May 2022 | 16
Banks talk big cloud game but few have migrated over 30% of apps
Less than half said business leaders in their bank understood 'opportunities of cloud'
PaaS + IaaS18 May 2022 | 22
Your data's auctioned off up to 987 times a day, NGO reports
Irish Council on Civil Liberties said this is first time the scope of real-time bidding is being measured
Security18 May 2022 | 28
Apple scraps 3-day return to office amid COVID-19 cases
2 days a week still compulsory but U-turn gives credence to worker concerns
On-Prem18 May 2022 | 52
HPE building its 4th global 'supercomputer factory'
Facility supports a flurry of HPC development, centered in the Czech Republic
HPC18 May 2022 | 1
China's vice premier Liu He advocates technology and government cooperation
After years of crackdowns, Beijing changing its tune on the industry
Systems18 May 2022 | 4
Marvell CXL roadmap goes all-in on composable infrastructure
Chip biz bets interconnect tech will cement its cloud claim, one day
Systems18 May 2022 |
Microsoft warns partners to revoke unused authorizations that drive your software
June debut of zero trust GDAP tool should make it harder for crims to attack through MSPs and resellers
Security18 May 2022 | 6
State of internet crime in Q1 2022: Bot traffic on the rise, and more
According to this cybersecurity outfit that wants your business, anyway
Cyber-crime18 May 2022 | 6
Surf the web from your parked Renault: Vivaldi comes to OpenR
French frolics for Chromium browser on Android Automotive
Software18 May 2022 | 27
Monero-mining botnet targets Windows, Linux web servers
Sysrv-K malware infects unpatched tin, Microsoft warns
Cyber-crime18 May 2022 | 10
Your digital heritage doesn’t need to be a digital dilemma
The first step to solving it? Getting things in (Micro) focus
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Red Hat Kubernetes security report finds people are the problem
Puny human brains baffled by K8s complexity, leading to blunder fears
Devops18 May 2022 | 21
Infosys skips government meeting – and collecting government taxes
You call this a glitch?
Software18 May 2022 | 7
Google keeps legacy G Suite alive and free for personal use
Phew!
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 40
GNU Compiler Collection adds support for China's LoongArch CPU family
MIPS...ish is on the march in the Middle Kingdom
Systems18 May 2022 | 7
China’s COVID lockdowns bite e-commerce players
CEO of e-tail market leader JD perhaps boldly points out wider economic impact of zero-virus stance
Personal Tech18 May 2022 | 1
Foxconn forms JV to build chip fab in Malaysia
Can't say when, where, nor price tag. Has promised 40k wafers a month at between 28nm and 40nm
Systems18 May 2022 | 2
NASA's InSight doomed as Mars dust coats solar panels
The little lander that couldn't (any longer)
Science18 May 2022 | 57
The ‘substantial contributions’ Intel has promised to boost RISC-V adoption
Analysis With the benefit of maybe revitalizing the x86 giant’s foundry business
Systems17 May 2022 | 14
FBI warns of North Korean cyberspies posing as foreign IT workers
Looking for tech talent? Kim Jong-un's friendly freelancers, at your service
CSO17 May 2022 | 10
Elon Musk says Twitter buy 'cannot move forward' until spam stats spat settled
A stunning surprise to no one in this Solar System
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 44
Pentagon opens up about its database of 400 smudges that may or may not be UFOs
'We're open to all hypotheses, we're open to any conclusions' says official
Bootnotes17 May 2022 | 28
AMD claims its GPUs beat Nvidia on performance per dollar
* Terms, conditions, hardware specs and software may vary – a lot
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 8
Google opens the pod doors on Bay View campus
A futuristic design won't make people want to come back – just ask Apple
On-Prem17 May 2022 | 20
Pentester pops open Tesla Model 3 using low-cost Bluetooth module
Anything that uses proximity-based BLE is vulnerable, claim researchers
Research17 May 2022 | 49
Google assuring open-source code to secure software supply chains
Java and Python packages are the first on the list
Security17 May 2022 | 3
Rocket Lab is taking NASA's CAPSTONE to the Moon
Mission to lunar orbit is further than any Photon satellite bus has gone before
Science17 May 2022 | 8
Alibaba Cloud adds third datacenter in Germany
More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS
PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 1
Hardening in the enterprise: SUSE releases Rancher 2.6.5 and NeuVector 5.0
Kubecon Still a 'nimble idea factory' under the gaze of the Chameleon
OSes17 May 2022 |
Inkscape adds multi-page support with v1.2 update
Pain points plugged in open-source vector art package
Software17 May 2022 | 20
Percona launches management system aimed at open-source databases
Percona Live PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL tools for overly busy DBAs, less experienced devs
Databases17 May 2022 |
Intel shareholders revolt against Pat Gelsinger's pay package
Investors want compensation-performance link, but manufacturing plan will dent bottom line
Systems17 May 2022 | 17
Turing Pi 2 crowdfunding goal smashed within a day
Go host yourself with a tiny low-powered Arm cluster in a box for $219
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 14
Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way
Show us that benefits outweigh the cost, BCS challenges government
Legal17 May 2022 | 83
Arm, Microsoft at pains to say this CPU arch can be trusted with real server work
It should just run like x86, pair basically stress
Virtualization17 May 2022 | 11
The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs
Analysis You look like Windows, and you look like Windows and you look like Windows ...
Software17 May 2022 | 343
Facebook rated least safe e-commerce option in government rankings
Singapore's safety scheme measures scam-combatting capability
Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 2
Europe moves closer to stricter cybersecurity standards, reporting regs
More types of biz fall under expanded rules – and fines for those who fall short
CSO17 May 2022 | 9
When’s the best time to extract value from your data? In real time, of course
Because you never step in the same data stream twice…
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Telcos fear Big Tech will bleed them until they can’t afford network builds
The GSMA would say that, yet Big Tech is making it harder for carriers to turn a quid
Off-Prem17 May 2022 | 13
Venezuelan cardiologist charged with 'designing and selling ransomware'
If his surgery was as bad as his opsec, this chap has caused a lot of trouble, allegedly
Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 11
China reveals its top five sources of online fraud
'Brushing' tops the list, as quantity of forbidden content continue to rise
Cyber-crime17 May 2022 | 15
Oracle really does owe HPE $3b after Supreme Court snub
Appeal petition as doomed as the Itanic chips at the heart of decade-long drama
Databases17 May 2022 | 59
Infusion of $3.5bn not enough to revive Terra's 'stablecoin'
Estimated $42bn vanished with collapse of UST, Luna – we explain what all this means
Personal Tech17 May 2022 | 55
DigitalOcean tries to take sting out of price hike with $4 VM
Cloud biz says it is reacting to customer mix largely shifting from lone devs to SMBs
PaaS + IaaS17 May 2022 | 10
GPL legal battle: Vizio told by judge it will have to answer breach-of-contract claims
Fine-print crucially deemed contractual agreement as well as copyright license in smartTV source-code case
Applications16 May 2022 | 53
US brings first-of-its-kind criminal charges of Bitcoin-based sanctions-busting
Citizen allegedly moved $10m-plus in BTC into banned nation
Cyber-crime16 May 2022 | 5
Meta hires network chip guru from Intel: What does this mean for future silicon?
Analysis Why be a customer when you can develop your own custom semiconductors
Networks16 May 2022 | 1
Hackers are after your data. So why are you making it so easy for them?
Here’s how to tailor a security suite that suits you
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Lithium production needs investment to keep pace with battery demand
Report says $42b will need to be poured into industry over next decade
Science16 May 2022 | 17
Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests
Still think we're ready for that autonomous future?
AI + ML16 May 2022 | 193
Kasten by Veeam adds ransomware detection to K10 data management platform
Kubecon Catching compromise attempts before kicking off that recovery plan
Storage16 May 2022 |
Financial giant Santander: 80% of our IT infrastructure in cloud
'Most challenging element of migration likely remains' warns analyst
PaaS + IaaS16 May 2022 | 9
Elon Musk 'violated' Twitter NDA over bot-check sample size
Updated <5% figure was based on 100 accounts, if you're wondering
Networks16 May 2022 | 87
Python is getting faster: Major performance tweaks on horizon
Instagram, Microsoft responsible for lifts coming in version 3.11 and beyond
Software16 May 2022 | 20
EU-US Trade and Technology Council meets to coordinate on supply chains
Agenda includes warning system for disruptions, and avoiding 'subsidy race' for chip investments
Systems16 May 2022 | 3
US cops kick back against facial recognition bans
In brief Plus: DeepMind launches new generalist AI system, and Apple boffin quits over return-to-work policy
AI + ML16 May 2022 | 9
RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete
Opinion Arm shows us that even total domination doesn't always make stupid levels of money
Columnists16 May 2022 | 53
You can keep your old ERP system, but you'll still need ServiceNow, CEO tells The Reg
Interview Bill McDermott thinks companies need workflow on top of enterprise apps, whether they replace them or not
SaaS16 May 2022 | 17
How CXL may change the datacenter as we know it
Interview Bye-bye bottlenecks. Hello composable infrastructure?
Systems16 May 2022 | 6
San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance
In brief Plus: Tech giants commit $30m to open-source security, miscreants breach DEA portal, and US signs cybercrime treaty
Cyber-crime16 May 2022 | 18
Lawyers say changes to UK data law will make life harder for international businesses
Concerns raised over government drive to implement distinct post-Brexit policy
Legal16 May 2022 | 69
September 16, 1992, was not a good day to be overly enthusiastic about your job
Who, Me? If I get in early and work hard, everyone will notice, right?
Columnists16 May 2022 | 63
(Our) hardware is still key in a multicloud world, Dell ISG chief insists
Analysis IT giant may be shifting its focus to software and services, but systems remain the foundation
Systems16 May 2022 | 3
Ad-tech firms grab email addresses from forms before they're even submitted
Researchers find widespread harvesting of info without consent
Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 87
Arm CPU ran on electricity generated by algae for over six months
AA-battery-sized biological photovoltaic cell touted as ideal for IoT applications
Edge + IoT16 May 2022 | 91
China's Kylin Linux targets second RISC-V platform
Is state-approved Ubuntu distro how the Middle Kingdom will replace PCs with home-grown kit?
OSes16 May 2022 | 5
Toshiba says it's talking to 10 suitors about possible sale
Hires external advisors to bolster decision making capacity and hints it could consider multiple buyout plans
Legal16 May 2022 | 7
Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker
Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles
Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 19
Colocation consolidation: Analysts look at what's driving the feeding frenzy
Analysis Sometimes a half-sized shipping container at the base of a cell tower is all you need
PaaS + IaaS15 May 2022 | 2
