Lonestar plans to put datacenters in the Moon's lava tubes How? Founder tells The Register 'Robots… lots of robots' Networks21 May 2022 | 1
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 Sponsored Post
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 Sponsored Post
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
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… Webinar
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 Webinar
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
D-Wave deploys first US-based Advantage quantum system For those that want to keep their data in the homeland Science15 May 2022 | 10