Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps Comment Fix testing to stretch into the summer. When will aerospace giant decide enough is enough? Science20 Mar 2025 |
Euro semi firms push for 'Chips Act 2.0' to expand beyond manufacturing Industry leaders want broader strategy, citing supply chain gaps, investment needs, and global trade uncertainty Systems20 Mar 2025 |
Too many software supply chain defense bibles? Boffins distill advice How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation Security20 Mar 2025 | 1
The post-quantum cryptography apocalypse will be televised in 10 years, says UK's NCSC Wow, a government project that could be on time for once ... cos it's gonna be wayyyy more than a decade Security20 Mar 2025 | 5
Oops, they did it again: Microsoft breaks Outlook with another dubious update Testing? We've heard of it Applications20 Mar 2025 | 24
SystemRescue 12 lands with added bcachefs support You might need that – the file system has some hard-to-squish bugs OSes20 Mar 2025 | 3
UK's biggest mobile operator starts 3G switchoff, hopes it won't catch out April fools VMO2 starts in the north of England, says it's already contacted 'known vulnerable customers' Networks20 Mar 2025 | 13
AI puts value in data. So how do we get it out? How HPE is helping to manage storage complexity Sponsored Feature
SAP legacy ERP customers still in no rush to adopt latest platform Even looming support deadline isn't tempting ECC users to haul themselves over to S/4HANA, say analysts Databases20 Mar 2025 | 4
Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits Fedora Asahi Remix 42 still scheduled for release in about a month OSes20 Mar 2025 | 23
US Space Force warns Chinese satellites are 'dogfighting' in space Begun, preparation for orbital wars has Science20 Mar 2025 | 28
SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing Japanese tech investor expects its own hyperscalers and e-com giants to collaborate, which could take a bite out of x86 market On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 3
Tencent slows pace of GPU rollout as DeepSeek helps it wring more performance from fewer accelerators Chinese giant says locals are more efficient than Western hyperscalers, and has tiny capex to prove it AI + ML20 Mar 2025 | 2
It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 15
HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional Dynamic Security update blocks 3rd-party cartridges, but keeps printing money Legal19 Mar 2025 | 37
Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union SSNs, payment details, and health info too Cyber-crime19 Mar 2025 | 3
Names, bank info, and more spills from top sperm bank Cyber-crime is officially getting out of hand Bootnotes19 Mar 2025 | 13
EU says Google scroogles app makers, also gives Apple an antitrust must-do-list Chrome colossus accused of tilting search results, blocking cheaper purchases, while iTitan told to open iOS Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 5
IBM scores perfect 10 ... vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX Big Blue's workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in Patches19 Mar 2025 | 4
VA IT contract cancellation DOGE boasted about ... was due to end in 10 days anyway How much money was going to be saved by ending tech deal with service-disabled veterans, then? Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 29
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue' PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 81
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful GTC Qubit awkward, you might say Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 4
Political poker? Tariff hunger games? Trump creates havoc for PC industry Comment Tech channel increases stockpiling amid 'volatile trade policies.' CIOs to get fewer devices for same money Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 34
Interview: Praveen Vaidyanathan, VP and GM of Data Center Business, Micron A discussion on scaling the datacenter with the company’s AI memory and storage portfolio Sponsored Interview
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work Systems19 Mar 2025 | 20
Crew-9 splashes down while NASA floats along with Trump and Musk nonsense Comment Elements within the US space agency have elected to toe the party line Science19 Mar 2025 | 66
Ex-US Cyber Command chief: Europe and 5 Eyes can't fully replicate US intel Cue deepening existential European dread as Rest of World contemplates Trump turning off the info tap Security19 Mar 2025 | 60
Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects Analysis Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL Systems19 Mar 2025 | 1
'Once in a lifetime' IT outage at city council hit datacenter, but no files lost Services still down and out, but techies working for local government saved the day On-Prem19 Mar 2025 | 43
Schneider Electric plugs into AI's power hunger with Nvidia digital twin tech GTC Because guesswork won't keep the lights on Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 1
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel OSes19 Mar 2025 | 69
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year 'Three-year' tech support deal still running PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 9
Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out AI + ML19 Mar 2025 | 24
Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout Science19 Mar 2025 | 9
Non-x86 servers boom even faster than the rest of the AI-infused and GPU-hungry market Analyst finds 91 percent revenue growth with white box makers leading the way Systems19 Mar 2025 | 4
China's EV champ BYD reveals super-fast charging that leaves Tesla eating dust Apparently boosts battery to 20 km range in 10 seconds, although as ever ... YMMV Personal Tech19 Mar 2025 | 125
Trump fires Democrat FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts Analysis Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 94
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks GTC Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 5
Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court Updated Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a © AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 28
CISA fires, now rehires and immediately benches security crew on full pay DOGE efficiency in action Public Sector18 Mar 2025 | 48
Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 45
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs GTC Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 5
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 1
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it GTC There goes AMD's capacity advantage Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 8
Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot Applications18 Mar 2025 | 20
US tech jobs outlook clouded by DOGE cuts, Trump tariffs Hiring remains relatively strong as analysts warn of slowdown Research18 Mar 2025 | 49
Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller now available to mere mortals For when a Pico 2 is just too general purpose Personal Tech18 Mar 2025 | 5
Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO Applications18 Mar 2025 | 18
Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying 'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture Research18 Mar 2025 | 40
Oracle JDK 24 appears in rare alignment of version and feature count The 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals in Java 24 represent a stochastic sign Applications18 Mar 2025 | 6
Google acquisition target Wiz links fresh supply chain attack to 23K pwned GitHub repos Ad giant just confirmed its cloudy arm will embrace security shop in $30B deal Research18 Mar 2025 | 4
DoorDash sued for allegedly branding customer a fraudster after delivery photo query Dispute over app privacy escalates into legal brawl Applications18 Mar 2025 | 50
Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom Updated There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit Bootnotes18 Mar 2025 | 24
UK wants dirt on data brokers before criminals get there first Govt yearns to learn mistakes of serially breached record holders so it can, er, liberalize data sharing regs CSO18 Mar 2025 | 12
ATMs in the Amazon: Edge is crossing its tipping point, says SUSE CTO SUSECON 2025 Sending Kubernetes and AI into orbit as devices move from 'glorified sensors' to 'decision-making' Edge + IoT18 Mar 2025 | 5
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 20
Extortion crew threatened to inform Edward Snowden (?!) if victim didn't pay up Don't laugh. This kind of warning shows crims are getting desperate Cyber-crime18 Mar 2025 | 13
Google’s broadband balloon laser comms tech floated out as independent company Another success for the 'Moonshot factory' and an extra rival for Starlink et al Networks18 Mar 2025 | 20
'Dead simple' hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat 'now actively exploited in the wild' Updated One PUT request, one poisoned session file, and the server’s yours CSO18 Mar 2025 | 8
Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co's lawsuit CSO17 Mar 2025 | 119
Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update Microsoft says disappearance of Clippy 2.0 is an error it will shortly fix AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 35
Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 81
M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair Cupertino’s latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says Personal Tech17 Mar 2025 | 26
Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next? Science17 Mar 2025 | 23
Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 105
Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem Databases17 Mar 2025 | 11
GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23,000 projects Large organizations among those cleaning up the mess Cyber-crime17 Mar 2025 | 34
Flang-tastic! LLVM's Fortran compiler finally drops the training wheels Another all-FOSS option – just don't confuse it with all the other Flangs OSes17 Mar 2025 | 26
UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay Technology Services 4 framework expands by £4B, with procurement to begin this week Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 19
Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied Maddening techno bass loop, Zoolander reference, and 14 minutes of time wasted Security17 Mar 2025 | 139
This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer Opinion Well, maybe not richer, but we're about to find out Software17 Mar 2025 | 74
Developer wrote a critical app and forgot where it ran – until it stopped running Who, Me? What comes after testing in the software development lifecycle? Aaah, never mind ... let's skip to maintenance Applications17 Mar 2025 | 45
OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini? Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience' AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 59
SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair Second time's a charm Science17 Mar 2025 | 29
China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata Asia In Brief PLUS: Foxconn wants 40 percent AI server market share; Atlassian CEO jets into controversy; Starlink reaches 800 million in India; And more! AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 19
FCC stands up Council on National Security to fight China in ways that CISA used to Infosec In Brief PLUS: Alleged Garantex admin arrested in India; Google deletes more North Korean malware Security16 Mar 2025 | 6
DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba's QwQ Hands on How to tame its hypersensitive hyperparameters and get it running on your PC AI + ML16 Mar 2025 | 24
RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79 Networks15 Mar 2025 | 38
Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe Chinese giant says it's 'committed' to obeying the law as arrests made Networks14 Mar 2025 | 11
AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globe On-Prem14 Mar 2025 | 38
Bubble trouble in hydraulics blamed for NASA and SpaceX Crew-10 scrub Trapped gas isn't just a party foul – it's a launch-stopper Science14 Mar 2025 | 19
SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game SUSECON25 What has more than a decade of support ahead of it cannot be dead AI + ML14 Mar 2025 | 12
France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 325
IBM boss Arvind Krishna pockets 23% pay rise to $25M CEO salary watch What about the average Big Blue worker? $48,582 up from $43,069 Software14 Mar 2025 | 40
Apple's alleged UK encryption battle sparks political and privacy backlash National security defense being used to keep appeal behind closed doors Security14 Mar 2025 | 81
AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing Opinion Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the actual workplace, they're going AWOL AI + ML14 Mar 2025 | 102
Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster Tin rattling earns rebuke from GNOME extension's original developer as well as dozens of everyday users Software14 Mar 2025 | 71
New kids on the ransomware block channel Lockbit to raid Fortinet firewalls It's March already and you haven't patched? Cyber-crime14 Mar 2025 |
Pirate Bay financier and far-right activist Carl Lundström dies in plane crash Mooney M20 propeller plane hit mountain in Slovenia amid bad weather Offbeat14 Mar 2025 | 68
BOFH: HR's AI hiring tool is perfectly unbiased – as long as you're us Episode 5 Who knew the secret to workplace harmony was JUGULATOR? BOFH14 Mar 2025 | 51
User complained his mouse wasn’t working. But he wasn’t using a mouse On Call The same chap also caused a bomb scare in a missile factory Personal Tech14 Mar 2025 | 111
Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count Science14 Mar 2025 | 17
India investigates whether Uber makes iPhone users pay more to ride Rideshare companies said it isn’t happening. Lawmakers aren’t convinced Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 19
Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' arguments Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 107